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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Above Almost Anybody Ceases Curiosity Dig Doing Even Hard Hate Look Others Prize Really See Taking Them Think Try Virtue Want Why You I Think

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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Absence Almost His Ill Know Part Read Reason Sexuality Tolkien Total Which World

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The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

~Aaron Ciechanover

Topics: Almost Because Between Different Elections Every Four Israel Law Means Never Never Take Next Once Place Politician Primary Research Runs Scale System Take Three Time Timetable Two Years

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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

~Aaron Ciechanover

Topics: Almost American Big Chances Competing Competition Had Israeli Science Small Years

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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

~Aaron Paul

Topics: Almost Anything Beginning First Just Much Necessarily Pretty Started Very Wanted Work

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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

~Aaron Paul

Topics: Almost Always Bad Bad Guy Been Done Drama Every Find Funny Guest Guy Hour Many Out Projects Starred Then Think Where

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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

~Aaron Paul

Topics: Almost Big Duck Everyone Film Indie Meet People Trailers Way You

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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Almost Between Inevitably Inside Me Outside Outside World Picture Successful Tensions Them Without World

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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc Because Character Dialogue Each Form Know Like Lives Look Narrative Nothing Other People Properties Really Scenes Seems Series Speak Unfold

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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Almost Aristotle Broken Pamphlet Promise Rules Something Thousand Thousand Years Three Writing Written Wrong Years Years Ago You

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