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Edward St Aubyn

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Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY
For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.
KEVIN LOVE
He's done a great job bringing the guys together.
BRAD LUKOWICH
It was a great game. It was a great semifinal game in a great environment. We came up short, but it ...
BILL BEARD
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendo...
JACK BLACK
Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St...
DARIUS RUCKER
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between acto...
ZACH WOODS
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS
'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that...
JOE CARNAHAN
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre....
NATE DIAZ
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They&...
LEONARD COHEN
St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great e...
ANDY COHEN
The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
EDWARD GREY
have found that bringing together a great team that’s united by strong motivation, determination a...
ANITA BHOGLE
It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all ...
JAMIE DIMON
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I&...
JASON BATEMAN
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
JOHN OATES
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely tal...
KEVIN SPACEY
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN
'Family Guy's got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around th...
MILA KUNIS
Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)
SUNG YEE POON
We are delighted with the FTC decision and look forward to bringing these two great companies togeth...
HARRY STONECIPHER
'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it&#...
JERRY WEINTRAUB
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
DANIEL BOULUD
The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to h...
EDWARD ST. AUBYN
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader....
EDWARD ST AUBYN
I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's al...
EDWARD ST. AUBYN
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EDWARD ST. AUBYN
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that th...
EDWARD ST AUBYN
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writi...
EDWARD ST AUBYN
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
EDWARD ST AUBYN
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat opera...
EDWARD ST AUBYN
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to wri...
EDWARD ST AUBYN
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situati...
EDWARD ST AUBYN
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It...
HUGH HOWEY
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people a...
WYNTON MARSALIS
What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and...
LAURA ZISKIN
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots...
DANA SPIOTTA
They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that ther...
JOHN O'HARA
Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
JEFF BRIDGES
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It...
LARRY SMITH
It's great conversation. In the industry, it's great talk,
SHELLEY BERMAN
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g...
ADAM LAMBERT
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a littl...
HARLAN COBEN
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
KATE MULGREW
My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. ...
BILL RANCIC
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, th...
YOKO ONO
It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great dire...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn...
RICHARD BRANSON
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a gre...
TED RALL
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no...
ANNE RICE
I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a c...
DAN PINK
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communi...
GEORGE TILLMAN, JR.
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the...
ERNST LUBITSCH
It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that su...
ROBERT KRAFT
It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my l...
TOM CRUISE
There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM
The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said pub...
HARI KONDABOLU
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our sepa...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great ...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that&...
BILLY GARDELL
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - ...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely th...
JOCK STURGES
It was always great to see them together. They had strong wives, great kids ... and great times toge...
TOM BROKAW
It was for a quartet and we recorded two CDs for a record label in Germany. It came up after a conve...
GERALD VEASLEY
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON
Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary wor...
JASON FRIED
I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that...
BERNIE LEADON
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS
It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves th...
XAVIER RUDD
I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It's a great way to market yourself and you...
CECE PENISTON
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly...
ZACK SNYDER
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS
It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is ...
GLENN DANZIG
I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises'...
MARV LEVY
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character...
ALAN BALL
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
SCOTT BAKULA
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it...
ROBERT STACK
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else w...
ELIZABETH OLSEN
It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we ...
KATIE TAYLOR
Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way th...
JESSICA SOFFER
AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great plac...
TIM HUDSON
There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
ALEXA RAY JOEL
It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
LIONEL MESSI
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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ST. LUCIA
I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA
I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT
We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD
The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD
Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN
Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN
When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the...
LARA ST. JOHN
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, t...
LARA ST. JOHN
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having mu...
LARA ST. JOHN
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
LARA ST. JOHN
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o...
LARA ST. JOHN
I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
LARA ST. JOHN
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN