Connie Willis Quotes
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.Connie Willis
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
Jack Horner -
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
Kate Middleton -
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
Walter Martin -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
Damon Wayans -
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
Danica Patrick
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh -
I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
Eddie Redmayne -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
H. R. McMaster -
Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells -
My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
Halle Berry -
I'm very serious about acting.
Victor Garber -
I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
Caity Lotz -
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
Damien Chazelle
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When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.
Allison Pearson -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard -
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.
Connie Willis