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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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.
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I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Luck is being ready for the chance.
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In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
