I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period... PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett... PRINCESS DIANA
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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. CHAIM POTOK Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal... CHAIM POTOK Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul CHAIM POTOK All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spiri... CHAIM POTOK All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. De... CHAIM POTOK I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimen... CHAIM POTOK For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ... CHAIM POTOK …everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t kno... CHAIM POTOK Something that is yours forever is never precious CHAIM POTOK It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. CHAIM POTOK A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will e... CHAIM POTOK It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. CHAIM POTOK Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounter... CHAIM POTOK There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of tha... CHAIM POTOK I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called histor... CHAIM POTOK A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... CHAIM POTOK It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. CHAIM POTOK An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i... CHAIM POTOK Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is som... CHAIM POTOK How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat... CHAIM POTOK Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal... CHAIM POTOK As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. CHAIM POTOK A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
It is hard work t... CHAIM POTOK I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again... CHAIM POTOK Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe... CHAIM POTOK I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o... CHAIM POTOK It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight o... CHAIM POTOK Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well, CHAIM POTOK I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I n... CHAIM POTOK We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and ... CHAIM POTOK In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ... CHAIM POTOK You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr... CHAIM POTOK Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. CHAIM POTOK It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ... CHAIM POTOK Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. CHAIM POTOK Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have p... CHAIM POTOK And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. CHAIM POTOK And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all... CHAIM POTOK But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the medi... CHAIM POTOK Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than t... CHAIM POTOK To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those begi... CHAIM POTOK If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no... CHAIM POTOK Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'unive... CHAIM POTOK I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about... CHAIM POTOK I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only r... CHAIM POTOK In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. CHAIM POTOK Four Corners Patriot Militia. MARK POTOK I mean from Germans to Irish Catholics to Jews to Hispanics virtually the same kinds of things have ... MARK POTOK The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I thin... MARK POTOK I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and ... MARK POTOK meeting with extremist anti-government groups and inoculating them against anthrax. MARK POTOK [Most agree that the prosecution of killers whose identity was an open secret has had a salutary eff... MARK POTOK Is Bill White the next David Duke? Out of the question. He will never rise to that level, MARK POTOK Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. CHAIM. WEIZMANN I head a nation of a million presidents. CHAIM. WEIZMANN A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for eve... CHAIM WEIZMANN I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the l... CHAIM HERZOG Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he under... CHAIM WEIZMANN It's a great pro-Israel tool to have MIT students meet Israelis on campus. CHAIM KUTNICKI Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. CHAIM WEIZMANN One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at... CHAIM PERELMAN I head a nation of a million presidents. CHAIM WEIZMANN It was agreed that first of all we will discuss on the agenda security, and then we will discuss nor... CHAIM RAMON It will be impossible to continue the peace process if terrorist acts will happen. CHAIM RAMON It's very difficult to get large institutions to sign on to such a plan, but we've had very positive... CHAIM KUTNICKI We are working on several different levels. CHAIM KUTNICKI There are a number of people who are actually pretty good friends now. CHAIM KUTNICKI Song is the pen of the soul. CHAIM DRIZIN