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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather…
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my…
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Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working…
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've…
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For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
— Duncan Sheik
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to…
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During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked…
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My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole…
— Charles Darwin
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My second hit was a flop.
— Unknown Author
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