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Marina Warner Quotes

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: November 9, 1946

Topics

Culture People Learn You Look Know

Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.

Love Eyes Book Loved Letters Write

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Moment Mind Frame Aspire Changing

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Life My Life Years Greater Part

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Conway Morris

Life Theatre Place Drama Understand

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

Miriam Margolyes

Positive Attitude Positive Attitude

I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.

Lloyd Blankfein

School New York College Law Wall Go

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

Joseph Stiglitz

Politics Economics Better Seeing

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

Time Myself Fun People Think Look

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Bruce Springsteen

Imagination Curiosity Name Band Buy

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

Day Performance Artist Look New

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

Alice Temperley

Home People Feet Think Down Way

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Pierre Bourdieu

Work Education Culture Hobbies Point

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