Ernst Mayr Quotes
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.
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I can't play a slave.
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When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.
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Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
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You have to get out there and compete. You have to work hard. People aren't just going to come knocking on your door and say, 'Please let me invest $1 billion in your back yard.' You need to be able to go and match the pitch and close the deal.
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I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now with Barack Obama.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
