Cynthia Ozick Quotes

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

Cynthia Ozick

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Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeSearchUniverseBeingUnified

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Jeanette Winterson

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Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.

Steven Levy

EngineersBuildWithoutFacebookAI

Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

Russell Simmons

CrazyKindLittle

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Michel Foucault

PrisonArmyCrimeCenterRecruitment

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

Michelle Williams

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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

Louise Slaughter

ChallengeAmericaCountryPersonGo

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Jay Rockefeller

CommunitySafetyCountryWillWhole

'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.

Jason Mitchell

StoryChoiceKnowAnythingSomething

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

Jordana Brewster

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The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.

Chauncey Billups

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The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Bonnie Langford

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