Ethel Wilson Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I'm an average person.
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Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
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The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.
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I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.
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Your power comes from the songs.
