Period Quotes
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
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I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.
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When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.
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Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
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One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.
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When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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I knew that I'd be able to climb the mountain, but in such a short period? I didn't think so. I mean, 'SmackDown Live' is the land of opportunity, and I'm a living proof of that.
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I love period dramas.
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
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I went through a period of not watching fiction.
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In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
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My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
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I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.
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The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
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For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)
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If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
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There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
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People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.
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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.
