Wallace Stegner Quotes
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
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Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.
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Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
