V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
