Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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A picture is like a prayer.
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I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
