Kirsty Gallacher Quotes

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

Kirsty Gallacher

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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
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• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
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• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
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• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
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• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Road
  • Yourself
  • Take Care

• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Name
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• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
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• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
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• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Humble

• As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Film
  • Adventure

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
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  • Black

• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Depend

• If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Funny
  • Relationship
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• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Truth
  • Voice
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• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Up
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• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there’s no point looking for it.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Trouble
  • First Rule
  • Police Work

• When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds

• My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Character
  • Age

• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  

  David Brin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

  

  Kirsty Gallacher
  • People
  • Believe
  • School