Isaac Asimov Quotes
In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.
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Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
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I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
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I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
