David Farr Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
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Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
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Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.
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A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
