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.
Garry Kasparov -
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 want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
