A. S. Byatt Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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New York is my home.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Our songs all carry the same way.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
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A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
