Gillian Tans Quotes

When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.

Gillian Tans

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WorkStartLearnYouYoungFail

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Joan Didion

GoodBelieveGreater GoodEthical

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

Jenna Wortham

CommunityMyselfMeEgoLoseRace

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

BeautifulThinkTragedyLinePoet

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

GodPoliticsPeopleChurchWantWhy

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

Robert Winston

GoodDoctorThinkYouCircumstances

I was a purist bore.

Michael Parkinson

Bore

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

WindowsNewWantWorthyWithoutMay

The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.

Debra Granik

TimeBookStorySomeoneYouMore

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

Christopher Walken

ComedyKnowKindActorBeingGoing

I don't think when I make love.

Brigitte Bardot

LoveThinkMake

We aim to encourage investments that ease our supply-side bottlenecks, such as rural roads, cold-storage, and grain-warehouses, which will also help us combat inflation.

Piyush Goyal

RoadsHelpAimWillRuralInflation

It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

WorkPeopleStoryShortEasyYou

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