Christopher Priest Quotes
I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
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Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
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So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.
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I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
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My expectations are incredibly high.
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When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept drifting back to Lara Jean and Peter, wondering what they were up to.
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The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.
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We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
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I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
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Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
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I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.
