Nevil Shute Quotes
She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.
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Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
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Lines 10–16
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
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I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it - but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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I'll usually wash my face with a face wash, then I'll go to my makeup. I like to use Nip + Fab Dragon's Blood Fix Serum. It's moisturizing and also a great primer for your makeup. And, I try to use sunscreen every day.
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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
