Connie Willis Quotes
The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
