Louise Rennison Quotes
There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
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There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
