Tom Petty Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
Mal Peet
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Gail Carson Levine
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith
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Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
Walt Whitman
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
Ernest Hemingway
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
Amy Lee Evanescence
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We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
Richard K. Morgan
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers