Robert MacNeil Quotes

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

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GoodLearnYouMannersGood Manners

I would happy for someone to download my music.

Joanna Newsom

MusicHappySomeoneWouldDownload

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

ResearchWritingYouDownGoMatter

Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

LovePerfectionLove IsBond

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet

BlessingsTrueProveTrialsBear

We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.

Trip Adler

MusicWorldLibraryWantDigital

Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.

Rosamund Pike

WomenReachLooksStopWillNever

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

Mary Schmich

TearsYouMove OnGoneMoveHappens

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

Luke Harding

LifeSomeoneBackDownSometimes

The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

Denise Morrison

AttitudeCommitmentPartnershipWill

I'm very opinionated.

Brian Eno

OpinionatedVery

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

Bruce Dickinson

MyselfFlyingYouPhysicsCareer

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Pico Iyer

LifeDayPeopleMeSpeakMy Life

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