Scarlett Thomas Quotes
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
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There is no free market in oil.
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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
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I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
