Deborah Harkness Quotes
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.
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The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.
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I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.
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The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
