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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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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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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I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
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Hell,’ I tell her, ‘is where all the interesting people are.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
