E. Nesbit Quotes
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
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I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
