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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You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.
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The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.
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Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able to carve out true, work-free leisure at some point. But there's been a kind of sneaky reframing of work as play as the Silicon Valley model has been imported into other fields. Now you see adult offices that look like nursery schools, and staff paintball parties, work cultures that encourage the "We're a family here!" fantasy while preventing workers from going home at a reasonable hour to be with their actual families.
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Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.
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A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
