Barbara Demick Quotes

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

Barbara Demick

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When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Matthew Vaughn

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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

Roger Penrose

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I did a play back in 2005 called 'The Pillowman,' which Martin McDonagh directed, in which, at the very end of the run, I caught a case of shingles. I had something burst on my forehead, so I actually have a mark on my forehead from that experience. But it's also an internal mark as well.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

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I know how difficult it is to get one job, much less an entirely new career. I'm very blessed and grateful. It's like I'm a normal person with an extraordinary journey.

Phyllis Smith

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There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Peter O'Toole

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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

Nick Saban

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