Jane Austen Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
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...my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.