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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.


A. N. Wilson

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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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RODNEY DANGERFIELD I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I...
ROSE MCGOWAN I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. T...
TOM HIDDLESTON I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a l...
BARRY HUMPHRIES I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a foo...
JOHN MADDEN I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.
DANA DELANY I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of J...
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STEVE SOUTHERLAND I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta...
PATRICK WHITE I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living ...
MICHAEL WINTER I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an acc...
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ANGELINA JOLIE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
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N. T. WRIGHT Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER