A. S. Byatt Quotes
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
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The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincer machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.
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I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
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That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
