- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
- Holding On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020