Padgett Powell Quotes
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.Padgett Powell
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
Kabir Bedi -
Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
Kate Williams -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen -
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
Warren Farrell -
You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
Jack Dangermond
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
Barton Gellman -
I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
Ed Lee -
I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
Maisie Williams
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
Bill Murray -
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Bob Geldof -
One good step breeds another one.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe -
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner -
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
Emily Giffin -
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
Padgett Powell