Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.
Olesya Rulin
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Hans Hofmann
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
Jack Keane
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
Cameron Mathison
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I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
Carl Kasell
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And what is friendship but a name,A charm that lulls to sleep,A shade that follows wealth or fame,And leaves the wretch to weep?
Oliver Goldsmith
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When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.
Donald Glover
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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
Loni Anderson
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
Patrick O'Brian