Andre Aciman Quotes
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.Andre Aciman
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel -
I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson -
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
Rachel Johnson -
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott -
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps -
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
Dana Rohrabacher -
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
Ingrid Betancourt -
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar -
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
Karl Lagerfeld -
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler -
I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner -
I'm not witty.
Claire Denis -
Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
David Chang -
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Jonathan Coe -
They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
Eddie Izzard -
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.
Andre Aciman