Bill Mollison Quotes
I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
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The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
