H. E. Bates Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
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... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
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Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
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Good morals lead to good laws.
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
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The garden that is finished is dead.
