Anne Rice Quotes
'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
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My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man.
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What Techstars is fundamentally a global ecosystem in which entrepreneurs are enabled and empowered to bring new technologies to the market.
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'Don’t worry,' he told her.'Me?' she said. 'I never worry. It’s all going to end badly whether I worry or not.'
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'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'
