Florence King Quotes
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
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Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.
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I don't really ask to take pictures of people. I kind of just get in their face.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
