Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Beryl Bainbridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 21, 1934

Topics

ChildrenStandPictureYouStatue

When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

Jesse Harris

LuckSingingStartSparkleYouSort

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

LifeArtTogetherArchitectureHat

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PoliceHoldSignificantStraightSet

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Dirk Benedict

TimeFaceAmericaLandNationLifts

No one's going to put in the effort you are for your career.

William Singe

EffortYouCareerGoingYourPut

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

William Klein

LifeFashionMy LifeLivingNever

I have already done two Christmas films: 'Elf' and 'Four Christmases.' I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it's the one time of year we can all get together. It's hands-down my favorite holiday.

Peter Billingsley

FamilyTimeTogetherYearHoliday

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

Peter Abrahams

YouGoWantWhereGetOnly

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

FailureLongDoneRidiculousWant

People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

Scott Kelly

MedicalSpacePeopleLossMuscle

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Renny Harlin

TimeMake It HappenStoryGoalKind

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Leon Panetta

LifeServicePublic ServiceBeen

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