Simon Schama Quotes
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.
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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
