Aylmer Hunter-Weston Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Even half a chance beats none.
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Casualties? What do I care about casualties?
