Owain Yeoman Quotes
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
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Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
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The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
