Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 7, 1927 - April 3, 2013

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I still bite my nails.

Jesse McCartney

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Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago

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I walk to work, so boots are a staple for me.

Stacey Bendet

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In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.'

Shonda Rhimes

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Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

Rosalind Wiseman

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I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

Ruth Reichl

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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

Rowan Williams

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The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

Lucy Davis

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After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded.

Louis Theroux

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I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'

Liz Goldwyn

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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Christina Aguilera

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You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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