Mary Shelley Quotes
I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me-'How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?'
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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A smart man isn't necessarily one who knows all the answers, but knows where to find them.
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It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.
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I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me-'How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?'
