Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I am a Zionist.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
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One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.
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Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.
