Edmund Crispin Quotes
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
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Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.
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We're just amazed at the reaction of people when they hear about the Korean study. They're scared of this pandemic, so they're looking for anything to potentially protect themselves.
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If he wins the general election, he should extend his term for another year and make efforts to build a new LDP.
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What's important here is that the Republicans agree with Donald Trump.
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I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
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I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.
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Don't stop with your first draft.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
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It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and Robert von Neumann would wander around and he'd come up behind someone and say, "Well, what are you trying to do?" And if you told him what you were trying to do, he would then proceed to discuss this with you and suggest things that you might look at and ways in which you could improve what you were attempting to do, etc - never worked on your painting, never touched your painting but talked extensively about what you were trying to do.
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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
