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My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can’t live without dreaming - as we can’t live without sleep. We are ‘conscious’ beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the ‘unconscious.’ It is nourishing, in ways we can’t fully understand. (Period Quotes)
I don’t like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat. (Period Quotes)
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else’s record from being sold. It’s about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records. (Period Quotes)
I’m pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out (Period Quotes)
Robert Frost’s triumph was not being at John Kennedy’s inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook. (Period Quotes)
It’s nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials. (Period Quotes)
It is a process of discovery. It’s being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way. (Period Quotes)
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience. (Period Quotes)
I’m tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I’m a writer. Period. Story matters to me. (Period Quotes)
According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period (Period Quotes)
Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn’t believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you. (Period Quotes)
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. (Period Quotes)
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. (Period Quotes)
For sure, 2010 was the best year I’ve ever had. It couldn’t have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off. (Period Quotes)
Usually, the best ideas come from other people’s good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas. (Period Quotes)
Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses. (Period Quotes)
When you’re trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes. (Period Quotes)
I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong. (Period Quotes)
The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter. (Period Quotes)
I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it’s the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you’re home and dry. (Period Quotes)
I don’t think I’m capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time. (Period Quotes)
Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody. (Period Quotes)
My success has been something I’ve worked a long time at and it’s been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don’t really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there’s a big difference. (Period Quotes)
Some times you lose more than you win. It’s about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there’s a period of adjustment to be made. You’ve got to handle it. (Period Quotes)
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period. (Period Quotes)
I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it’s abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it’s no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct. (Period Quotes)
Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly. (Period Quotes)
I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band. (Period Quotes)
If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory. That the mechanism of evolution (Period Quotes)
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills. (Period Quotes)