Miriam Toews Quotes
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I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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I think our guys see that they can compete here. That's a big step for a young ball club. Our guys are learning and we're getting better with each game.
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I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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Love is the oxygen of the soul.
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All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.
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You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
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Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.
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David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
