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Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language. Antonia Fraser
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely? Jackie Collins
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I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. Dick Francis
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I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.
british-author people truth
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? T. S. Eliot
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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. Neil Gaiman
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot
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Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler. Colin Angle
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Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward. David A. Bednar
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Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver's skills, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful to drive. Romain Grosjean
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I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview. Marilynne Robinson
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We'll probably do 4-8 bunkers at a time. It's a continuous process that takes about six months to get done, so around October, November, depending on weather. Paul Ito
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It hasn't been like an overnight thing or even an over-the-summer thing. It's been a continuous process really since we signed him. His improvement's been constant, yet dramatic when you look at it. Jamie Dixon
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We're going to be simplifying and repackaging the message as part of a continuous data message, ... Right now, we use continuous archive and nobody knows what it means.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats Iris Murdoch
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If a man makes continuous efforts, we can save him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. Zach Johnson
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I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me. William McDonough
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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. Chuck Palahniuk
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The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. William Gibson
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. Walter Kirn