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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do. Zadie Smith
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite. Wendy Kopp
exactly identified maybe people pinpoint
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. David Byrne
exactly okay women
Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break! Brooke Burke
exact experience material smile somebody though watching
When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience. Chris Crutcher
exactly home people
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language. Natasha Trethewey
exactly learnt until
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. Ninette de Valois
exactly tough
That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it. Steve McNamara
exactly hit needed picked point somebody step theresa
That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that. Scott Graf
geometry difficult prove
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. Plato
geometry
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. Pythagoras
geometry poetry-is subjects
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
geometry poetry-is precise
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
geometry sects
There are no sects in geometry. Voltaire
poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
poetry
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? Octavio Paz
poetry
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. Edward Hirsch
poetry
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
poetry
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. Edward Hirsch
poetry
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
science
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory. Ivar Giaever
science
'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. Ivar Giaever
science tinkering
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. David Hanson
science writers
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. William Gibson
science thinking goal
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole. Carl Sagan
science fiction advantage
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. Carl Sagan
science survivor kicking
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive. Carl Sagan
science columbus usual
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'. Carl Sagan
science thinking people
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated. Carl Sagan