Arthur Phillips Quotes
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.Arthur Phillips
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
Gail Sheehy -
Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Rachel Stevens -
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Sally Ride -
We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
Iris Apfel -
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
Viktor E. Frankl
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz -
If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.
Ted Dekker -
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst -
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
Walter Dean Myers -
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
Rabih Alameddine -
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo -
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
Kabir Bedi -
On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
Patrick Lencioni -
If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
The President has apples on the table And barefoot servants round him, who adjust The curtains to a metaphysical 't'
Wallace Stevens -
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.
Mark Z. Danielewski -
In England and the United States, where physicists have at their disposal equipment of very high voltages, several new elements were prepared using protons and deuterons as projectiles.
Frederic Joliot-Curie -
The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
Erwin McManus -
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
Matthew Modine -
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
Arthur Phillips