Nicholson Baker Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Vikram Seth -
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood -
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth -
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
Imelda May -
Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
Randi Weingarten
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner -
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
Yayoi Kusama -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese -
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
Patrick Modiano -
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Fareed Zakaria -
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
Orville Redenbacher
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West -
I've been looking for a woman to save my lifeNot to beg or to borrowA woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
The only thing God is building in this world is his church.
Bakht Singh -
I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
Yaya Toure -
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Vance Havner -
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Nicholson Baker