Rose Tremain Quotes

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

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God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.

Jim Inhofe

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Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

John Battelle

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Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

Jennifer Holliday

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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Mel Brooks

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Laureate is a highly leveraged failing investment whose principal beneficiaries are Wall Street fat cats and billionaires - and William Jefferson Clinton.

Roger Stone

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The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

Robin DiAngelo

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One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

Martin Seligman

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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Douglas Coupland

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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

David Shields

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

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I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

Chuck Robb

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If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Winston Churchill

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