Abraham Verghese Quotes

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

Abraham Verghese

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I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Johann Lamont

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I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

Andrew Sean Greer

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We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

John Keegan

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

John Steinbeck

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Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

Simon Helberg

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I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

Mira Nair

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I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.

Boots Riley

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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

Ari Millen

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I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.

Asdrubal Cabrera

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I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

Paula McLain

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'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

Tituss Burgess

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If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Martin Jacques

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