Aminatta Forna Quotes
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.Aminatta Forna
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
Zach Wamp -
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard -
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius -
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
Daniel Craig -
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
Karl Malone -
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
Olga Korbut -
Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
Olly Murs -
Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
Kapil Sibal
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
R. Kelly -
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
Tatiana Maslany -
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
Early Wynn -
I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
Kate Reardon -
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
Mark Hanna -
We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
William McDonough -
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
Sam Francis -
The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
Phyllida Lloyd -
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.
Billy Joel -
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
Aminatta Forna