Rebecca Stead Quotes
Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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Developing a series is a next step for me.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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I have to see how this all shakes out. We will see how everybody heals up, and I will sit and look at it and decide what we are going to do.
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I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.
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Philosophy precedes a religion in the time.
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I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
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Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
