Barbara Cameron Quotes
It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
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In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
