Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
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Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
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Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying.
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Let's shut down the EPA.
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Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
