Muriel Spark Quotes
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.
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I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.
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I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.
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How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!
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Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.
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I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.
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I'm on record that it didn't really traumatize me to do away with some people.
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We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.
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Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.
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When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
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My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.
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For me, my brand is good storytelling.
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If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
