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.A. S. Byatt
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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.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Orlando Bloom -
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
E. F. Benson -
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.
Ram Dass -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Lance Morrow -
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.
Hannah Simone -
I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
Rachel Griffiths -
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss -
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.
Finn Wittrock
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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.
J. M. Coetzee -
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.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
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.
Francesca Annis -
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
Karin Slaughter -
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. Lang -
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright -
I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.
Caroline Wozniacki -
Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
Jared Cohen -
My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard -
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
A. S. Byatt