Emily Barton Quotes
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.Emily Barton
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
Adam Davidson -
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
Raghuram Rajan -
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
Iggy Azalea -
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
Caity Lotz -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
Taylor Hicks -
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
Gary Allan -
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
Victoria Clark
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There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
Dan Jenkins -
The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
Carla Gallo -
I thought I was a sexy symbol!
Gaby Hoffmann -
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda -
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp -
No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
Felix Dennis
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You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.
Brian J. Smith -
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
Andrew Yan -
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
Nick Cannon -
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
Daniel Radcliffe -
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
John McWhorter -
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
Emily Barton