A. S. Byatt Quotes
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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You either are or you're not.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.