J. M. Coetzee Quotes
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.J. M. Coetzee
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
Kapil Dev -
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert -
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai -
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow -
I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
Mara Brock Akil -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann -
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
Rachel Joyce -
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria -
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln -
Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
Gavin Hood
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But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."
Eve Ensler -
There's just something about the audiences in Detroit that I've always felt connected to. Detroit is different.
Bob Saget -
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.
Drew Barrymore -
I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?
Alexa Chung -
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
Jessica Lynch -
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
J. M. Coetzee