Kay Boyle Quotes
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
Kay Boyle
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
Sam Hunt
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
Laura Ingraham
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
Ted Sarandos
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Gavin DeGraw
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
Vidya Balan
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.
Mandy Patinkin
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.
Tyra Banks
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
Bill Ayers
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That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
Ja Rule
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
Farnaz Fassihi
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
Anatole France
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
William Jay Smith
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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
Kay Boyle
