Gene Wolfe Quotes
We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past-or the future-and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
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Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
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I went from working with Will Smith to working with Will Smith's wife. So the Smiths have been very good to me.
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We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past-or the future-and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
