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 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.
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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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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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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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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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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.
