Jane Austen Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
Barry Hannah -
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
Umberto Eco -
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles -
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
Karen Salmansohn -
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
Camille Paglia -
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
Sam Smith -
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
Harmony Korine -
As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.
Sally Yates -
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Zoe Cassavetes -
Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
Sally Phillips -
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama -
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie -
I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
Pat Buchanan
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
Matt Bomer -
Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
Pete Hamill -
I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.
John Roos -
Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.
George Washington -
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen