Nicholas Blincoe Quotes
I think I've made a commitment to being a political novelist, which in some ways isn't fashionable.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.
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To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.
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At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.
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I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.
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I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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I think I've made a commitment to being a political novelist, which in some ways isn't fashionable.
