Eileen Simpson Quotes
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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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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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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Fox is fair and balanced.
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When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.
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Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.
