E. L. Konigsburg Quotes
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
