Neil Gaiman Quotes
It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.
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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.
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Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
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It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.
