Emily Barton Quotes
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.Emily Barton
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Adam Beach -
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George -
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles -
They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
Vera Wang -
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
Gary Johnson -
The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Benjamin
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I was with Karen Carpenter in Vegas. We were invited to Elvis's dressing room and I had to drag her away. She was such a sweet girl but I could see what was going on. I met him a few times after that, and he flirted very heavily with me. I was supposed to do a movie with him and that was stopped right away by my husband!
Petula Clark -
Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
Bruce Lee -
This is one of the hardest industries to be married.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar -
Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
Joel Edgerton -
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
Andris Nelsons -
My mom says I was born screaming.
Elle King
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'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
Arthur Darvill -
Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
Breaux Greer -
In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.
Jennifer Egan -
America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States.
Anthony Joshua -
It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.
Paz Vega -
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
Deborah Moggach
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You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.
Kathy Reichs -
I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
Brandon Routh -
Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
Diana Ross -
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.
C. V. Wedgwood -
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
Joanne Rowling -
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.
Emily Barton