Tim Pratt Quotes
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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Football lost its excitement for me.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.
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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
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My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'
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I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.
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One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
