Michelle Paver Quotes
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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A river reaches places its source never knows.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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People know that I'm going to do what's right.
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Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?
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I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
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What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.
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It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
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My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.
