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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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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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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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.
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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.
