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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I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
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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.
