The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Douglas Coupland
Recitation: by Male by Female
For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.
John Grant
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu
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Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
Tracy Chevalier
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I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.
Trent Reznor
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If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.
Tom Goodman-Hill
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Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
Monica Johnson
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
Derek Walcott
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The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.
Deepika Padukone
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The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.
Christen Press
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We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
Cliff Stearns
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You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
Shia LaBeouf
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
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