A. S. Byatt Quotes
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
