Charles Lapworth Quotes
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I just love dancing.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.
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Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
