A. S. Byatt Quotes

You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A. S. Byatt

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Happiness

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

  

  Parker Young
  • Years
  • Thousand
  • Vegetables

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Opportunity

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Different
  • Challenge

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Mom

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Experience

• You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • Wife
  • Dark