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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Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy,' which was a beautiful take on social realism.
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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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To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
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The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
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It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.
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There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.
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I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.
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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.
