Stuart Appleby Quotes
The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.
Quotes to Explore
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
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Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
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Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.
