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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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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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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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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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future.
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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.
