A. S. Byatt Quotes
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.A. S. Byatt
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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.'
Karin Slaughter -
How lucky am I?
Olivia Williams -
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
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.
Ramez Naam -
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.
Oliver North -
A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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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.
Dan Gelber -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't like attacking.
Barbara Bush -
Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
Valerie Azlynn
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly -
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens -
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Viktor Korchnoi -
When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
Ian Anderson
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
Larry Bucshon -
I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.
Tyson Gay -
I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.
Oprah Winfrey -
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt