Victoria Strauss Quotes
Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
Victoria Strauss
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
Pat Barker
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
Vince Cable
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison
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I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
Dan Wheldon
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
Iain Duncan Smith
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
Zubin Mehta
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
Cassandra King
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Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
Simon Mawer
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It was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
Elena Ferrante
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
Victoria Strauss
