Eric Gill Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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I have to live my books before I write them.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
