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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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell
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And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
Dan Aykroyd
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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