Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Tanya Tucker
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
Rachel Weisz
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I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
Rafe Spall
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After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.
Halima Aden
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh