Pam Brown Quotes
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.
Quotes to Explore
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.
