Cate Tiernan (Gabrielle Charbonnet) Quotes
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
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I also believe that using polo as a platform to give back is a very humble way to position this sport, because people sometimes look at this sport as a little bit snobby. So I love to use polo as a platform to help.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Literature has become my life.
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What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
