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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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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What’s that old saying about the longest way ‘round is the shortest way home, or is it the shortest way ’round is the longest way home? Anyway, this is the longest shortcut I’ve ever taken.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
