Nell Newman Quotes
I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
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It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
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I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
