Cynthia Ozick Quotes

I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

Cynthia Ozick

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ColdDoingResultYouLostDead

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

John Leo

TimeMondayPeopleStandStandards

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

Robert Smith

ParentsSmallFeelBackHouseGo

It's not the end of the world to lose.

Andy Murray

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I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

Tom Petty

RealistOptimistLikeToo

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

Mary Hunter Austin

GreatWordsFameNamesAboveClear

It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.

Mary Lou Retton

PeopleMeWeirdAmericaNewNeed

The stage for our whole show is actually really interesting and a lot of fun. There's always something going on so we figure even the people who come up and don't know Big Time Rush love the show because there's always something going on, so that's what we love about it.

Logan Henderson

LoveTimeFunPeopleInterestingUp

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

Jared Harris

YouLookPlayingLikeGrantGraves

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

Colin Angle

PeopleEasyBackAlwaysNextBig

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

Pete Rose

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I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

Shane Warne

ThinkQuestionsNowSayBoringWay

My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built to serve and interact, not be worshipped.

Scooter Braun

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