William Trevor Quotes
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
Ed Rollins
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
J. G. Ballard
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
Patricia Riggen
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No dream is ever chased alone.
Rahul Dravid
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
Win Butler
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No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.
Bob Ross
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It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.
Chris Crutcher
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I'm a realist.
Penelope Keith
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One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.
Elf Sternberg
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
William Trevor