A. S. Byatt Quotes
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
