Alexandra Potter Quotes
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—
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I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
