Margaret Atwood Quotes

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Margaret Atwood

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I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.

John Grant

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The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

John Constable

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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

John Wooden

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I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

John Piper

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When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

Roberto Firmino

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Some people win 10, 15, and don't fight for the belt.

Jose Aldo

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To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

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I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

David Walliams

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I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

Connie Smith

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I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.

Brendan Coyle

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I want to get better and better at my craft.

Brie Larson

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Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

Brian Stelfreeze

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