Adam Nicolson Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Gail Carson Levine
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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There's nothing deader than a dead love.
Leona Helmsley
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Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?
Hutton Gibson
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
Joanne Rowling
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Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
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Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.
Arvind Kejriwal
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson