Angus Deaton Quotes
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
Angus Deaton
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
Gabrielle Zevin
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
Kenneth Rexroth
The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.
Dylan Walsh
Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
Martha Plimpton
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
Angus Deaton
