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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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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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 would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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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'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on experiment but the experimenter knows the many little things that could have gone wrong in the experiment.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.
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By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
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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.
