Donald Heiney (MacDonald Harris) Quotes
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
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But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
