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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.
- Great Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020