Angela Carter Quotes
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.Angela Carter
Quotes to Explore
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick -
If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
Daniel Cudmore
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
Earl Butz -
My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
Barry Jenkins
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown -
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth -
There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming -
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
Yolanda Adams
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
Esther Dyson -
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
Jim Broadbent -
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
Fanny Burney -
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
George McGovern -
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Aristotle -
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter