V. S. Pritchett Quotes
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I love bayou life.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
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I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
