Edmund de Waal Quotes
The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
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We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
