Nalini Singh Quotes
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.
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There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.
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Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
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My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
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The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
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There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.
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The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
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The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.
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One writes such a story The Lord of the Rings not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
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Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.
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Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
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A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
