Andrew Pyper Quotes
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
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As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
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People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
