Nick Park (Nicholas Wulstan Park) Quotes
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.
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Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
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The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
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It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.
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I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
