Edward St Aubyn Quotes
‘Look at her,’ said Patrick, ‘pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.’
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
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I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
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‘Look at her,’ said Patrick, ‘pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.’
