Joanna Russ Quotes
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.But the frogs die in earnest.Joanna Russ
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
Imtiaz Ali -
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci -
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
Viggo Mortensen -
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
Zig Ziglar -
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin -
The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
Zachary Taylor
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
Harry Browne -
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
Ophelia Lovibond -
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
Harbhajan Singh -
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch -
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
Edgar Wright -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
Vidya Balan -
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy -
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
Kangana Ranaut -
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Patrick deWitt -
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph Ellison -
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
Brin-Jonathan Butler -
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Nicholas Herbert Stern -
I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.
Mark Kurlansky -
I never stopped DJing through the entire 'Game of Thrones' process. I never saw the need to stop because I do love it so much.
Kristian Nairn -
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.But the frogs die in earnest.
Joanna Russ