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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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
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I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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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.
