Edward Tenner Quotes
Dr. Frank Daschner once infuriated his colleagues by declaring: "You can sit on any toilet seat without the least risk, but don't, whatever you do, shake hands with your doctor.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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Disliking someone is almost as big a commitment as loving someone, and it carries none of the benefits.
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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?
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Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
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I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.
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Dr. Frank Daschner once infuriated his colleagues by declaring: "You can sit on any toilet seat without the least risk, but don't, whatever you do, shake hands with your doctor.
