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Robin Hobb
"Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey."
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Source : Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.81, Spectra
Robin Hobb
#Journey Quotes
#Yesterday Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.”
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“Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.”
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“Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.”
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“I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.”
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“A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.”
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“If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.”