Charles Frazier Quotes

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

Charles Frazier

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MusicWindDirectionYouChannels

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

John Dyer

LoveHomeGreatLove IsPeopleSit

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Robert Scoble

TiredFeelingOldSeeFacebook

Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

Steve Zahn

ProcessPersonDirectorDifferent

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Robert Fritz

YourselfChoicesCompromiseYouWant

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

Tom Hodgkinson

FlowerGardeningFlowersMeSeeds

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

Rose Tremain

JourneyDestinationWritingPicture

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

Robert Winston

GoodFriendTruthSciencePresent

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mary Manin Morrissey

SonGuiltYearBodyFeelingsShame

I'm a big kid, you know?

Jason Momoa

YouKnowKidBig

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

DeObia Oparei

PeopleMeYouthTheatreBlackBig

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Clive Sinclair

LostOutForgottenHerPrintWorks

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicYouFindTryWhateverOut

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