Lauren Groff Quotes
The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland
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My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'
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Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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If you're a coach, you're a teacher.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
