Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes
With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
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I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.
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I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.
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This is the potential start of something...awareness
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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I think that we're gonna start seeing more and more people who started as a YouTube personality and now have their own studio, and they're gonna start creating things: story-driven stuff, longer-form stuff that people have an opportunity to enjoy.
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With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.
