V. S. Pritchett Quotes
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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I saw a shady forest and therein a crowd of nightingales. The nightingales as to their breast were rough and hairy, and as to their feet some were like calves, some like panthers, and some like wolves, and they had beast's claws instead of toes.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days.
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Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want to live with somebody, then live with somebody. All that other stuff is just a way for the state monitoring and codifying certain activities and ostracizing others.
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There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
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Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
