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P. D. James Quotes

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014

Topics

Kindness Human First Stream Up May

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Work Small Book Reading Plan You

A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.

Humor Wife Book Price Say Her

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Life Love Wife Memory You Sometimes

When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.

Angelique Kerber

Confidence Improvement Game Back

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Abuse Pity Just Form Another

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

Michael Bastian

Business Focus School People Design

Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

Robin S. Sharma

Think Will Never Afraid Happen Most

I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.

Fun People Me Baby Weird You

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Truth Friends Hands You I Can

I prefer being called director Aishwarya Dhanush's husband. She and I share our passion for cinema, but at home, we hardly talk about it. Instead, we share other interests.

Home Passion Husband Cinema Talk

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Beginning Finding Being Something

Worst advice? I either don't remember it or I've been very lucky in terms of getting good advice.

Allison Williams

Good Advice Remember Good Advice

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