H. G. Wells Quotes
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
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Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
