Erin Merryn Quotes
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
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You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
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Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
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On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
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We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
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To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.
