Rhianna Pratchett Quotes
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?
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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.
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The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.
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Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
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One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'
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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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All bravery stands upon comparisons.
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The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
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You can't have bravery without fear...
