Brian Boyd Quotes
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
Brian Boyd
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
Karen Duffy
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
Oona Chaplin
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
Carine Roitfeld
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Karl Marx
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
John Burroughs
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
Marc Bloch
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
Anand Giridharadas
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Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Jason Biggs
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I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
Bjork
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When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
Jason Fried
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I always think that I've embarrassed myself.
Christina Ricci
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I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
Alessandra Torresani
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When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.
Chris DeWolfe
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Edgar Degas
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When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.
Drew Carey
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...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
Brian Boyd
