Jean M. Auel Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I would love to be a role model.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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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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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
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Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
