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A. S. Byatt Quotes

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A. S. Byatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 24, 1936

Topics

Great Greatness Legends Explore

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appreciate Never Noble Gain Us Torn

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

Jennifer Coolidge

Life Think You Go Way Going

Few people realize that luck is created.

Robert Kiyosaki

People Luck Realize Created Few

If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead zombies... there's been tons of tweaks.

Jeff Baena

History You Look Movies Always Been

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Nature Truth Imagination Law Lawyer

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Stephen Hawking

Cannot Argue Mathematical Really

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

Robert Zemeckis

War Action Loved Movies Special Kid

You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.

Mike Nichols

Life People Talking You Say Movies

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

Mike Huckabee

Respect Great Achievement Color Want

We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.

Joshua Henry

Past Leaving Things Something Us

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

Jason Aaron

Experience Think Grow New Like

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

Chris Fussell

Organization Control Distance More