Patrick White Quotes
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Is it named after Michael Jordan?
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
