Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.
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Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
