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'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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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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From building robots and video games to coding apps that solve a problem in your community, or 3D printing in fashion tech, it is important that we explore different ways to engage girls in STEAM and also ensure that there are many, and different, women role models that will inspire our girls to pursue STEAM careers.
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'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.
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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?'
