J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.
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As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.
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Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
