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Edward Carey Quotes

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'

Edward Carey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1970

Topics

Age Childhood School Happy Think

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

Andrea Bocelli

You Teach Singer Something Idol

I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.

John McCain

Faith Myself Me Church Christian

I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

Matthew Desmond

Adversity Road Think Problem Poverty

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

Angela Bowie

Love Son Me Why Understand Never

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Research You Look Investment Three

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

John Witherspoon

Speak You Rise Said Say Never

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman Man Society She Away Being

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Tony Goldwyn

Day Believe Every Day Seeing Wonder

There are five requirements for an accused to turn state witness. One of the requirements is that the accused does not appear to be the most guilty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Guilty Turn Five Most Requirements

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

Liz Phair

Singing Feel She Cat Her Herself

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.

Bob Graham

Small Tax Now First Buy Incentive

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Norman Lamm

Man Free Better View Innocence Go