Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
