Garth Nix Quotes
'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.
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It is so filled with so many issues about being Latino in the United States. Being documented versus being undocumented, and Latinos and the way they are perceived across the nation and especially in California. I know that sounds super broad, and it is. But in the film, we touched on issues enough so that they can be brought up afterward, and then we could invite people to bring them up in a bigger discussion.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
