Cyril Connolly Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.Cyril Connolly
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
Eddie Marsan -
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
Karla Souza -
Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
Patrick Lencioni -
Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
iO Tillett Wright
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
Becca Fitzpatrick -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
Randy Houser -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott -
Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
Madhur Mittal -
I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
Kajol -
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
Halle Berry -
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Felicia Day
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
Mary Gordon -
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
Clint Smith -
I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
Wanda Jackson -
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
Cyril Connolly