Philip Kerr Quotes
I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I get homesick.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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Almost went vegan, but no, I didn't go vegan.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
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Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
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Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
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In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way.
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I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.
