A. S. Byatt Quotes
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I like being unconventional.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
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People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there.
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God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
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An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.
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It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
