Antony Beevor Quotes
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.Antony Beevor
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
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.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
Ian Mckellen -
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
Warren Farrell -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Walter O'Brien -
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress -
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.
Vicki Lawrence -
I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
Washed Out -
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.
Walt Disney -
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
Jackee Harry -
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
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.
Barbara Sukowa -
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.
Padma Lakshmi -
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
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.
Safra A. Catz
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Francis Bacon -
Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
Cindy Blackstock -
I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
Paris Jackson -
I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.
Kenny Cunningham -
I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.
Matthew Heineman -
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
Antony Beevor