C.P. Snow Quotes
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
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A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
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Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.
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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
