Andre Norton Quotes
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
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The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
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Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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To be whole is to be part;true voyage is return.
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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.
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We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?
