Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
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Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
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Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.
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I don’t know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It’s not like you’re sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
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They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
