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A. S. Byatt Quotes

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Together Think Thinking Feel You

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

Job School Me High School Learn Get

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

Great Challenge Looking Enough Look

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Mind Ideas Will Roles Specific

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

Sports Dancing Track Stamina Ran

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Morning Light Simple Mountains Me

Gluten-free pasta is not a focus, which I would rather have gluten-free pasta. Hey, if I have to have regular pasta... It is what it is.

Metta World Peace

Focus Pasta It Is What It Is Would

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Freedom Solitude Wine You Wall Head

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

Girl Child Swimming Flying Dream

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

Good Art Perspective Diversity Those

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

Michael Schumacher

Car Hate Racing You More Take

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Beautiful Butterfly Ugly Start Out

Banks can send big corporate payments through existing channels or send a small payment through Ripple. They don't have to rip out existing infrastructure; they can use Ripple to make the transactions more profitable or more efficient.

Small Ripple More Out Big Channels

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