J. M. Roberts Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
Imelda May -
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon -
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull -
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn -
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
Barton Gellman
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan -
I never forbid myself anything.
Ieva Laguna -
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Bart Stupak -
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
Ted Morgan
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Zadie Smith -
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp -
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card -
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
Edmund White -
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
W. H. Auden -
Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
Anthony Wayne
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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Joseph Brodsky -
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.
Ellen Kushner -
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner -
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.
Gary Gach -
It's a very low-key approach for low-impact fishing.
J. M. Roberts