Rebecca Stead Quotes
For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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'McKay tells me that you went home sick,' she said. 'Personally, I hope you don’t survive.'
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When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.
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Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
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You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.
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Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.
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For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.
