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Antony Beevor Quotes

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

Antony Beevor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: December 14, 1946

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Sheep Lake Seeing Rise Too Much See

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

Jim Kelly

Good Me Attention Down Always Been

I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.

Joe Morton

Work Live House Rent Out West Coast

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

Andrew Hudgins

Death Laughter Mystery Logical

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Ann Demeulemeester

Lonely Creating Ways Lot Thing

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Michael Ignatieff

Think Country Without Being Quebec

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Rita Mae Brown

Opportunity Me Think Choose Reason

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

Ronnie Coleman

Change You Want Used Because Get

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

Dreams Food People Need Nourishment

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Science Fiction Politicians

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Anton du Beke

Music Disco Hated Most Bowie 1970s

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Alison Elliott

Good Feel Good Grow Feel You Acting

I know that nobody can become a star without a team.

Persis Khambatta

Team Nobody Know Become Without