A. S. Byatt Quotes
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.
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Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
