Adam Nicolson Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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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.
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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.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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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.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing deader than a dead love.
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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?
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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I think the Fed is making federal debt so cheap that Congress has no interest, Washington has no incentive to ever face up to our massive fiscal gap that is going to grow, and grow as we go forward in time and so we have a paralyzed system.
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Who the fuck is Justin Bieber?
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
