Edmund Morris Quotes
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance -
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
Ira Sachs -
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
Dan Pink -
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin -
I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
Kat Graham -
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
Eavan Boland
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Abraham Lincoln -
My friends are my family.
Ian Mckellen -
I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
Becky G -
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
Ian Hacking -
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
Ovid -
The papers inclosed will shew that the nauseous project of amendments has not yet been either dismissed or despatched. We are so deep in them now, that right or wrong some thing must be done.
James Madison -
There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.
Deepika Padukone -
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
Christopher Eccleston -
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
David Eddings -
We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.
James Mattis
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
Garth Davis -
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
Cherie Lunghi -
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
James Buchan -
Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.
Lee Hyeon-seo -
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris