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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
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Stephen Greenblatt
American
Critic
Born:
Nov 7
,
1943
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,
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,
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It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
Best
Value
Pressure
Made
Girl
Astonishing
Best Friend
Glass
Supremely
Diamonds
Friend
Friends
Cut
Your
Who
Everlasting
Resilient
Need
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
Philip Roth
Astonishing
More
Know
Knowing
Passes
Even
Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.
Diana Gabaldon
Character
Eyes
Job
Seen
Become
Before
Transformation
Astonishing
Claire
Fact
Sam
In Fact
Jamie
Act
Actor
Right
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Education
Ignorance
Science
Nothing
Astonishing
Facts
Accumulate
Form
Amount
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming
Advice
Young
Extraordinary
Neglect
Our
Astonishing
Our Lives
Out
Would
Would-Be
Point
Never
Been
Laboratory
Offer
Trying
May
Influence
Happening
Worker
Appearance
Lives
Chance
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
Alexander McCall Smith
Great
Astonishing
Sight
Rather
River
Delta
Towards
Than
Sands
Sea
Inland
Flow
Flows
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
Beeban Kidron
Freedom
People
Political
Internet
Free
Free Speech
Sides
Astonishing
Say
Find
Come
Model
Thing
Speech
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
Ben Schott
You
Old
Father
Big
Other
Back
Everyone
Astonishing
Evolution
City
London
Fond
Small
Knew
Look
How
Very
Fan
Used
Map
Each
Belong
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Benjamin Haydon
Genius
Nothing
Astonishing
Ways
More
Faculties
Greater
Doing
Materials
Refined
Than
Done
Intensity
Common
Ordinary
Things
What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.
Binyavanga Wainaina
Gay
Technology
People
Law
Challenge
Community
Gay Community
Astonishing
Negotiating
Able
More
Gives
Part
Environment
Like
Identity
Lot
Leeway
WhatsApp
Going
Spaces
Really
Keeping
Receptive
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