A. S. Byatt Quotes
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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How lucky am I?
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I don't like attacking.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
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I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
