George V. Higgins Quotes
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
George V. Higgins
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
Vidya Balan
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
Jack Germond
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
Park Shin-hye
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
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Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
Pardis Sabeti
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Madhur Mittal
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
Malik Jackson
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Caitlin Rose
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
Nathan Myhrvold
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
Karen Carpenter
The Carpenters
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I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
Abbey Clancy
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I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
Adolf Hitler
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
Octavia Spencer
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
Valentino Garavani
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One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.
Kristen Stewart
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Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
George V. Higgins
