Mary Shelley Quotes
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.
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As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.
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Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
