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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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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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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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.
