David Starkey Quotes
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
Quotes to Explore
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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I've always idolized Jay-Z He's one of my favorite persons, even before I knew him personally.
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
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Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.
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The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.
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Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
