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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quote: "Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes..."

Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is.

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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself. Nick Hornby
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. Norman Vincent Peale
Alicia Keys quote: "But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was..."
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play. Alicia Keys
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that. Haruki Murakami
Terence Young quote: "Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh..."
Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us. Terence Young
William Blake quote: "To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration"
To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration William Blake
Clint Walker quote: "Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale."
Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale. Clint Walker
When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: 'We're afraid they'll kill us.' When men were asked the same question about women, they said: 'we're afraid they'll laugh at us. Naomi Wolf
Jamie Redknapp quote: "I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game."
I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game. Jamie Redknapp
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. Georg Baselitz
Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath. Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate Suzanne Collins
Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of. Ludacris
Jane Austen quote: "The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children,..."
The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter. Jane Austen
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. Joseph Pulitzer
That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene. Debbie Allen