Allan Bloom Quotes
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.Allan Bloom
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
Nancy O'Dell -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
Kacey Musgraves
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm an honest, open father.
T.I. -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
Adam Clymer -
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer -
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie -
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
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If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
Philippa Gregory -
Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey -
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
Marianne Williamson -
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Allan Bloom