Larry Niven Quotes
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
Gail Kelly
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
Frances Farmer
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Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
Irving Kristol
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Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
Dinaw Mengestu
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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
David Grann
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Fear is the brother of hate.
Larry Niven
