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.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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  • Know

• 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.

  

  Jack Adams
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  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Ferran Adria
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  • Discipline

• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• You either are or you're not.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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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.'

  

  Olivia Colman
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  • Pretty

• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
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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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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  • Emotions

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
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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.

  

  Nate Parker
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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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.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Table

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
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  • Science
  • Loved

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
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  • Attention

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
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• It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself, at first thought the body was that of one of the many celebrants who had chosen the Piazza as a convenient outdoor toilet and dormitory. Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling. Martin, noting the good quality coat and shoes, had just pegged the body as a drunk when he noticed that it was in fact missing its head.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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  • Head
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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
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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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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