John Steinbeck Quotes
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.
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It is never very crowded at the front.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
