James Nasmyth Quotes
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I like to work.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
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Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
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I would love to meet a dodo.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
