Bel Powley Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
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Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
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Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.
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I loved history and Eastern European politics.
