Iris Johansen Quotes
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I hate competition.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. (8 November 1944)
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I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
