Nevil Shute Quotes
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.
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I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
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I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
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I'm so glad we had that storm last week.
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I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
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I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.
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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.
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In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
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I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
