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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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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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Being evil is easy.
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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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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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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 there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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No one can be certain what the future will bring. No one can say whether the time has come for an easing of the struggle. But history and our own conscience will judge us harsher if we do not now make every effort to test our hopes by action. And this is the place to begin.
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I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.
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I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.
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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.
