Edmund H. North Quotes
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
Edmund H. North
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
Rachel Kushner
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
Salma Hayek
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
Danica McKellar
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
Sam Shepard
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
Nancy Kress
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
Rabih Alameddine
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Barack Obama
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
Oscar Wilde
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
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It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.
Pete Gallego
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The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
Edmund H. North
