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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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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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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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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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The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
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I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
