Amy Gerstler Quotes
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving -
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
Imelda May -
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
Laura Chinchilla -
I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
Mackenzie Davis
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
Vance Joy -
I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
Haley Bennett -
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
Famke Janssen -
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky -
I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
L'Wren Scott -
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien Hirst -
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
Gary Locke -
Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?' (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek
Nancy Pelosi -
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
Jack Vance -
The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
Jack Vance -
Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.
Chuck Klosterman
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Learn early, learn often.
Drew Houston -
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did chuckling try to find out.
Bill Clinton -
The feeling of actually being with someone you love at that moment is completely different than a video afterwards.
Rithvik Dhanjani -
Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
Paul Parker -
No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.
Democritus -
I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
Amy Gerstler