A. S. Byatt Quotes
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington.
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I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
