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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
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They don't pile up too much oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrate or phosphate. Those are kept under some kind of biological control. That's how the past has been. The big issue is, will the future work that way?
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It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doing. We just never felt that what he was doing was particularly difficult or meaningful. We were just normal.
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The support for Gore comes much more quickly and much more easily once voters get a sense of who he is. Until they understand something about his motivation and his biography and his background, it is difficult for voters to get a handle on him outside of the image of a vice president. Tad Devine
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The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret. Elvis Costello
biography nature
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
difficult road
We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.
difficult sells knows
It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy. Bernard Baruch
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
difficult team turn
We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.
difficult
It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works. Charlie Hunnam
difficult
It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it. Charles M. Schulz
difficult grants difficult-days
God grant us patience! William Shakespeare
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Until we know exactly what took place ... that's why there's an investigation. Until you know the total facts, it's kind of difficult to talk about. Rob Blake
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Until we can get some really good rain to keep the fuels moist, it is really difficult to fight a fire.
felt series
From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series, Barnett Newman
felt good momentum
We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense. Matt Hasselbeck
felt proper
We always felt we did the proper thing.
felt fitted movement
We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing. Shirley Manson
felt invent people
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things. Lisa Gansky
felt
We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.
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We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready. Petr Sykora
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It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that. Michelle Williams
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I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you. Charlotte Bronte
found notice-me
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
found prove-it evidence
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself. Charles Hodge
foundation should lost
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. Charles Gounod
foundation secrecy
Secrecy is the foundation of politics. Bing Gordon
found wells company
Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded. Bernard Werber
found
Life must be somewhere to be found, instead of # ConcreteJungle . Bob Marley
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As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.
found life separate
When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.' Neneh Cherry
until worked
Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it. Jonah Lomu
until
Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.
until
Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.
until
Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.
until
until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon. Tommy Lapid
until
We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.
until wait
They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,
until
It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.
until
It's not over until it's over, until they put an 'X' by our name.
wrote
'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days. Christopher McQuarrie
wrote
This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law, Mike DeWine
wrote
I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison
wrote
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book. Kent Haruf
wrote
Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.
wrote
At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together, John Cleese
wrote
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. Jami Attenberg
wrote
That's what I thought when I wrote it,
wrote
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. Damien Chazelle