Emily Barton Quotes
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.Emily Barton
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Banksy -
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
Victoria Justice -
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker -
If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
Edgar Wright -
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black -
Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
Taylor Hicks -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
Eddie Redmayne
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
Felix Baumgartner -
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam -
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
Wendie Malick -
I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
Yi So-Yeon -
Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
Rachel Sklar
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
Taylor Lautner -
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
Warren Christopher -
If I saw me, I’d want to speak to me too. I’d think, ‘that guy looks like he’s form Mars, he’s somehow strangely compelling.’
Johnny Borrell Razorlight -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris -
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
Emily Barton