Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.Lorde
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Sai Baba -
Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
Barry Ritholtz -
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld -
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
Gail Porter -
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Dana Priest
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Maggie Smith -
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
Harold Prince -
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
Edgar Ramirez -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
Pamela Meyer
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
Laura Dern -
I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
Wayne Gerard Trotman -
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
Irwin Shaw -
The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, 'Mom, listen to this,' and she'd say, 'Junior, I know who you are.'
Ornette Coleman -
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
Lorde