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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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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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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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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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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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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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
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Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.
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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.
