Barry Unsworth Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
Edith Pearlman
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
Pamela Meyer
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
Mahesh Babu
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
Karen Duffy
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
Rachel Sklar
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Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.
Eli Broad
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There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
Charlie Kaufman
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At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
Lee Greenwood
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I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
Clive Cussler
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You might remember, it was 2003 when I made the statement that the idea that manmade gases, CO
Jim Inhofe
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To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.
AJ McLean
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
Adam Mansbach
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
Rachel Joyce
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Rachel Cusk
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There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.
Lorenzo Snow
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
Billy Joel
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
Barry Unsworth
