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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Think
  • Surprise

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Cool
  • Unique

• Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Education
  • Confidence

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I get a lot more out of the - the touchy feely stuff that happens on reddit. And while I love the snark, and it makes me laugh, I am happy that there is this wonderful balance that plays out on reddit. Or you can get both. I enjoy having my cake and eating it too, especially if it's not a lie, and chocolate.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Happy
  • Balance
  • Chocolate

• I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

  

  Ashley Madekwe

• Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Great
  • Different
  • Culture

• Quantum mechanics... developed through some rather messy, complicated processes stimulated by experiment. While it's a very rich and wonderful theory, it doesn't quite have the conceptual foundation of general relativity. Our problem in physics is that everything is based on these two different theories and when we put them together we get nonsense.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Different
  • Together

• The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

  

  Douglas Adams
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