Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Vikram Seth -
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
Gavin DeGraw -
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle -
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
Kris Kristofferson -
At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
Jools Holland -
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa Cather -
My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
The Weeknd -
I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve Irwin -
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac D'Israeli