Eva Ibbotson Quotes
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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I live and die by puns.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.
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Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.
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I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
