Howard Jacobson Quotes
All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
Howard Jacobson
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
Hannah Simone
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
Rakul Preet Singh
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
Adam Clarke
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Larry Hagman
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
Malala Yousafzai
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
Patrick Collison
