Vaclav Smil Quotes
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
