Antony Beevor Quotes
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.
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Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
