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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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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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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Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.
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Simple people have much to offer. We too in return must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.
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A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it.
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It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.
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Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison.
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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.'
