Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.Emily St. John Mandel
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
L'Wren Scott -
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
Candace Parker -
I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
Paddy Considine -
I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
J. B. Pritzker -
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
Idina Menzel -
Water.
Ulysses S. Grant
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
Otto Weininger -
Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
D. H. Lawrence -
If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.
Edward Heath -
At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.
Chuck Klosterman -
Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.
Craig Ferguson -
It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
Alan Moore
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It's really great to see fans all over the world.
Burnie Burns -
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.
Maurice Jarre -
I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
Jimmy Smits -
Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor -
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.
Eleanor Catton -
I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.
Chuck Fleischmann
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We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
Billy Bragg -
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
Bear Grylls -
Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
Walter Scott -
I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.
Jan C. Ting -
All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.
Emily St. John Mandel