Karl Ludwig von Knebel Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
