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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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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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 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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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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'They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?' Colin whispered behind his order of service.'It’s late twentieth century atonal,' Dunworthy whispered back. 'It’s supposed to sound dreadful.'
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Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
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What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
