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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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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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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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
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If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
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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.
