Gertrude B. Elion Quotes
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
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If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.
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I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.
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I'm a spiritual person.
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I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
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In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.
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A lot of what I write is very personal.
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I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
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[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
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My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
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All partings foreshadow the great final one.
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That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
