Anita Brookner Quotes

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

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LifeFutureBusinessGameNewBall

I describe myself as a human being.

Jimmy Kimmel

MyselfHumanHuman BeingBeing

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

Andrea Corr

LoveWorldRealitySmellI Love

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

John Mortimer

FlowerChildrenInterestingCongress

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Ang Lee

HatePastYouMoviesPrettyMade

Even though I'm a chairman, I don't always get my way.

Jeb Hensarling

WayAlwaysGetEvenThoughChairman

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn't handle that business then there were no privileges.

Stephen Curry

FamilyBusinessFaithSportsSchool

The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

Monica Raymund

LoveBusinessCommunityLoyaltyYou

Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.

Michael Seibel

LookingFeelOutsideMinorityValley

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

Michael Shermer

LifeBusinessSeriousEmploymentAny

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

EducationWomenPresentPolitical

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

Jason Jones

MeWriteEverythingSeemSomething

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Jonathan Safran Foer

DailyDayChoicesThinkingLong

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