Esi Edugyan Quotes
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
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Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.
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We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
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The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
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If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
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Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
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If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.
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Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.
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(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
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The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .
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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
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I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.
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Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
