"Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me."

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Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.827, Bloomsbury Publishing

Susanna Clarke

#Life Quotes #Watches Quotes #Way Quotes

“Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.”
“Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.”
“All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?”
“Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.”
“If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.”

Source : Source: povmagazine.com
“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.”
“Even as a child, I found a way to survive.”
“I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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