Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.
