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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
Edgar Allan Poe -
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank -
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.
Thomas A. Edison -
A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.
Winona Ryder -
There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.
Mick Hucknall Simply Red -
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