Deborah Levy Quotes
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
Deborah Levy
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
Tate Taylor
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
Adam Carolla
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey
As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
Yitzhak Rabin
For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker
In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.
David Einhorn
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
Ana Ivanovic
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.
Leonard Peikoff
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
Deborah Levy
