Winifred Holtby Quotes
It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
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The collective effort of repression was tremendous, made the alcohol indispensable. An intense but contentless optimism about the future was the only protection against the recent past, in which all the regimes of value had collapsed, irradiated or gassed.
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It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
