A. S. Byatt Quotes
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
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Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
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Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.
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The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.
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I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."
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I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
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Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.
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History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
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I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.
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God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.
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The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will - not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. If we are all One Being, then it is foolish for us to hate anyone, as we are only hating ourselves.
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
