Chelsea Cain Quotes
I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
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Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.
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Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.
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In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
