"I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Danielle Dutton

#Book Quotes #Wind Quotes #People Quotes

“God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.”
“You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
“I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.”

Source : Amanda Smith (1893). “An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary”
“The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
“I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.”

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