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My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
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More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
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How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
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Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
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I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. Robert Rainy
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My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them. Rohit Shetty
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Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.
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Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos Havelock Ellis
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Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership. Robert Nardelli
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Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()
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Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life. Sathya Baba
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Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. Italo Calvino
grew home
I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal. Mallory Ortberg
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My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears. Lord Byron
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My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine. William T. Vollmann
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New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up, Ellen DeGeneres
grew learned result year
Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.
grew tv
When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W. George Romero
grew outfits stylist wearing
I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed. Tyra Banks
grew pretending
I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood. Daryl Sabara