Angela Thirkell Quotes
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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Those who continue to fight for a hateful cause will find they are increasingly alone. For we will not succumb to threats, and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build - not those who destroy.
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Terrorists are desperate assholes who see no institutionalized recourse to address their grievances, so they resort to random acts of violence in order to instill fear into the general population.4
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
