Elias Canetti Quotes
'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
Elias Canetti
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
Ramez Naam
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
Venus Williams
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
Patrick Ness
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. Mark Felt
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
Val Kilmer
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I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.
Rinko Kikuchi
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal
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I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.
Portia de Rossi
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The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.
Lauryn Hill
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'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
Elias Canetti