"I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast."
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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts."
"There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little."
"I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well."
"And my little sister died when she was 16."
"We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further."
"I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself."
"There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques."
"There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read."
"My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral."
"Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant."
"Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is."
"In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement."
"I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit."
"It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another."
"It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge."
"The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly."
"Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'."
"You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too."
"I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame."