Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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I bought a girl roses once.
Cameron Dallas
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
Kate Winslet
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
Yoko Ono
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I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
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What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
C. S. Lewis
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To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.
Ken Marino
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Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Cynthia Ozick
