"You ever try to leave New York? I……" — Stacy Schiff

"You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year."

— Stacy Schiff

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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library…
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…

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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC.… — Dick Cavett
Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will… — Rajneesh
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to… — Richard Ben Cramer
Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work... — Frank Zappa
Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to… — Eric Church
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you… — Dennis Lehane
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to… — Karl Hess
I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but… — Jo Brand
I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe… — Jimmy Connors
All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only… — L. Ron Hubbard
Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are. — Angelina Jolie
I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there… — Danny Pintauro

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