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"He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure."
"When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety."
"Well, there’s 10 - there’s 10 different - there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions. And I’m absolutely in favor of one deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that."
"I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me."
"On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it."
"I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today."
"Each role has its own different challenges."
"And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today."
"You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
"The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense."
"Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive."
"I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand."
"Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense."
"I've worked on 30-something different TV shows, and most of the people can't stand each other."
"When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own."
"I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain."
"God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."
"Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through."
"I just believe that marriage is a beautiful representation of God's love for us and that there is such a cherishing that can happen in marriage that is different from any other relationship."
"It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions."
