Kate Grenville Quotes
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The devil made me do it.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
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I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.
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We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
