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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Knowledge
  • Innocence

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Sex
  • Same

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Needs
  • Boss

• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Childhood
  • Modern
  • Rate

• We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Rock
  • Start
  • Bands

• Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Live
  • Worry
  • Bible

• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Luck
  • Once
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• I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

  

  Sarah Vowell
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  • Guy
  • Term

• In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Harmony

• I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• It's really helped a ton in the sense that we get to reach people who don't normally know our music. At least once a night at a show someone will come up to the merch table after the show and say they've never heard of me but they saw me on Troubadour, TX, and it reminds me that I'm not Elvis and anything I can do to get my name out there is beneficial in every way.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • People
  • Night
  • Shows

• And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Daughter

• I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

  

  Nigel Kneale
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