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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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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I've never been fired in my life.
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
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I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great.
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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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.
