Edmund Crispin Quotes
Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
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I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
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Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.
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One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.
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We never talk about gambling around my house.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
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Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever
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It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
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I'm very religious.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
