Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I was not an easy kid.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
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There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
