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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

Alan Lightman

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Each Moment Music World
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Careful Over Point Take
There is a place where time stands still.
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Place Stand Still Time
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Actual Cosmo Irrational Perhaps Rational World
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Already Doing Done Money More Spend Thing Time Water
The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Brood Children Father Monogamous Mother Osprey Summer Through Watch
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some

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