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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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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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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Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
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I love acting as a passion. It's something that is really fulfilling to me. But the core of it, which is one of its most difficult aspects, is that it's commission-based.
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This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
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I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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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.
