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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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
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I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
