L. Sprague de Camp Quotes
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.
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Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
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Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
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I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
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Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.
