Larry Wall Quotes
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
Vikram Seth -
I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
Gary Sherman -
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
Randy Newman -
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch -
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
Samantha Morton -
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
Vicki Lawrence -
Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
Viggo Mortensen -
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
Jack Keane -
Few people know how to be old.
Maggie Kuhn
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I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
Venus Williams -
The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
Dan Harmon -
I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
Oliver Cromwell -
You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction.
Cyrano de Bergerac -
57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan Perlis -
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
Colin Wilson
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I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
Luke Evans -
I'm a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.
Marine Le Pen -
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
Marina and the Diamonds -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
Larry Wall