Helen McCrory Quotes
People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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I only entertain very close friends.
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I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.
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Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
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How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.
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People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
