V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - He knows - HE knows!
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You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.
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I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.
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Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
