Lynne Truss Quotes
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.
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As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved.
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
