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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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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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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There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.
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Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
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People choose sources of information not because they trust them to be impartial, but because they reflect their own view of the world. Their biases—their passions, if you like.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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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.
