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 love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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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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You have to feel good about yourself.
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Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
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East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.
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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.
