H. E. Bates Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.
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In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
