Nevil Shute Quotes
Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I love to push myself.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
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Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.
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I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
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I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
