Barrett Tillman Quotes
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.
Barrett Tillman
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
Rachel Weisz
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
R. A. Salvatore
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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After the publication of my dialogues, I was summoned to Rome by the Congregation of the holy Office, where, being arrived on the 10th of February 1633, I was subjected to the infinite clemency of that tribunal, and of the Sovereign Pontiff, Urban the Eighth; who, notwithstanding, thought me deserving of his esteem.
Galileo Galilei
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'You’re the U. S. Robot’s psychologist, aren’t you?' 'Robopsychologist, please.' 'Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?' 'Worlds different.' She allowed herself a frosty smile, 'Robots are essentially decent.'
Isaac Asimov
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'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'
Leigh Brackett
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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
Albert Claude
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People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
Nick van de Wall
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.
Wilhelm Stekel
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala Harris
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In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.
Frank Thomas
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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.
Barrett Tillman