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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
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• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
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• I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• Instead of being with my family, I was spending a lot of time trying to start all over again, from zero, in another country. I couldn't take it anymore, so I went back to Mexico and said, 'I'm gonna do my own stuff.' So, I did my movie that I was trying to do for many, many years, called 'Instructions Not Included.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
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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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