Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
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When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
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It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.
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The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.
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I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!
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I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
