Taiye Selasi Quotes
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.Taiye Selasi
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I would like my kids to study well.
Vijay -
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
Maggie Gallagher -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
J. J. Watt -
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
Nancy Johnson
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
Pankaj Mishra -
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson -
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova -
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
Sam Worthington -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus -
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda -
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
Finn Jones -
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I started writing songs at 17.
Miranda Lambert -
In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.
Logan Green -
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Success come to those who become success conscious.
Napoleon Hill -
I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
Frances Bean Cobain -
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi