John Crowley Quotes
Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
