Margaret Drabble Quotes
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
Rachel Keller
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The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.
T. B. H. Stenhouse
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I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
Debi Gliori
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Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.
Neil Marshall
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I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
Albert Einstein
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
