Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
Laila Robins
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
Barry Larkin
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
Gale Harold
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
Taylor Sheridan
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
Olivia Colman
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
Irvin Kershner
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
Patrick Rothfuss
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
M. J. Rose
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
Owen Wister
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch
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I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.
Jami Attenberg
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In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
Kenneth Fisher
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
Ellen Key
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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
D. H. Lawrence
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
