Katharine Viner Quotes
Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
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Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
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Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.
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What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.
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The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. (p. 263)
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Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
