Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.Katherine Cecil Thurston
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor -
A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
Ban Ki-moon -
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull -
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams -
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
A. R. Rahman -
Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.
Valentina Matviyenko
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden -
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
Randy Schekman -
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
Rachel Cusk
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
Camila Alves -
The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
Raghuram Rajan -
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
Frances McDormand -
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
Damon Lindelof -
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
Lara Pulver
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All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
David Fontana -
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Malorie Blackman -
Cover the earth, before it covers you.
Dagobert D. Runes -
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
Katherine Cecil Thurston