W. G. Sebald Quotes
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
