Algis Budrys Quotes
There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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I work out with our trainer, Jocelynne Boschen of Alpha Sport L.A., hike a lot, and eat healthy. I love cooking so prepare a lot of my own food and avoid processed foods. No fast food. No soda.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
