E. L. Doctorow Quotes
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.E. L. Doctorow
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock -
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker -
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan -
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Garth Brooks -
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T. D. Jakes -
As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
Manti Te'o
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie -
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
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It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.
David Ignatius -
I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.
Angelina Jolie -
My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
Naeem Khan -
Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
William Stringfellow -
I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. Doctorow