David Attenborough Quotes
I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
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Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
