A. S. Byatt Quotes
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
