Stacy Schiff Quotes

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

Stacy Schiff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1961

Topics

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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Joe Cocker

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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

Joan Didion

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I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

Jeremy Scott

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Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

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When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.

Rumaan Alam

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From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

RuPaul

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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Matt Bomer

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Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad

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Never trust a television executive.

Dominic Holland

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Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

Dhani Harrison

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You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

Ricky Gervais

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Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Mark McGwire

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