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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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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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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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
