Terry Waite Quotes

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

Terry Waite

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 31, 1939

Topics

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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

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It was the middle of winter, Con Edison had shut off my power, and I didn't have an agent. I made this VHS tape of some monologues, but I didn't even have the money for a MetroCard. So I walked the tapes 'round to the different agencies in town.

Jeremy Strong

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I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

Jen Lancaster

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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.

Matt Lauer

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I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

Michael Buble

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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

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'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Stefanie Powers

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As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

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'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.

Dennis Muren

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Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

Debbie Reynolds

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