C.P. Snow Quotes
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.
