Madison Smartt Bell Quotes

I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.

Madison Smartt Bell

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Office
  • Where
  • Assignment

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Together

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

  

  Larry King
  • Famous
  • Being
  • Being Famous

• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Changes

• The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

  

  James G. Stavridis

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Motherhood

• When you work for somebody who is very technical, and understands and has creative solutions to your problems, it spurs you along and stops you making excuses for things. And I found that very useful.

  

  David Perry
  • Work
  • Excuses

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
  • More

• I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream