A. S. Byatt Quotes
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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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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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
