David Pye Quotes
The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
