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.A. S. Byatt
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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.
Umberto Eco -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Kate Beckinsale -
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley -
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
Rachel Platten
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
Landon Donovan -
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.
Gail Carson Levine -
The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
Bar Refaeli -
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Cameron Russell -
Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
Irving Ravetch -
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.
Maika Monroe
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
Kajol -
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
Jimmy Iovine -
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
David Levithan -
I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
Jeff Bridges -
A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.
Danny Wallace -
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A. S. Byatt