I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How … - Elizabeth Kostova

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A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

Elizabeth Kostova

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

Believe, Eye, Museum, Running, Seen, Together

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Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

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I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

Historical, Important, Opened, Readership, Think, Thinking

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

Bulgarian, Bulgarians, Cook, Cooks, Years

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages. . . I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

210, Hard, Pages, Trying, Writing

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

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Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.

Backs, Feet, Looks, Shoes, Toes, Wear

Judith Martin

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

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Naomi Ragen

. . . self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government. . . They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

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Apolo Ohno

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

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Boris Yeltsin