Simon Schama Quotes

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

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The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.

Jenny Scheinman

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Jon Tester needs to be held accountable for his extreme partisan liberal record of supporting President Obama's judicial nominees 99% of the time but then opposing President Trump's nominees.

Matt Rosendale

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When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Stjepan Hauser

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The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

Shinzo Abe

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

PeaceYourselfYouFindWillNever

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

Dick Cheney

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People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Deborah Mailman

FamilyLovePeopleBraveYouGet

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

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No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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But I loved making 'Eat Pray Love,' and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

Richard Jenkins

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I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Renee O'Connor

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Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.

Lin Dan

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