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• Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Giving, Complaining

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• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

  Omar Epps

  Directors, Actors, Relate

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• Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

  Marvin Gaye

  Reality, Hands, Pay

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• We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Community

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• Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

  Mark Jenkins

  Nature, Kids, People

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• Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Nature, Journey

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.231, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Curves, Needs

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

  Rob Brezsny

  Nature, Affection, Remember

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.168, Frog Books

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• Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Nature, Stars

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• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

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• It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the latter I collected many proofs, but I do not publish them ... I would dare to publish my speculations if there were people men like you.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Men, Light

  Letter to Johannes Kepler, 1596.

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• It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Light, Evolution

  "Evolution as a Process". Book edited by J. S. Huxley, A. C. Hardy and E. B. Ford, 1954.

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• The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Law, Problem

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Science, Men

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• So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

  Theodor Adorno

  Hygiene, Irrelevance, Dying

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.232, Verso

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• Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Believe, Men, Vegetables

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• Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

  Willie Nelson

  Forever, Stones, Lasts

  Song: Old Fords And A Natural Stone

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• Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

  David Crystal

  Phones, Way, Messages

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Mean, Simple, Facts

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• No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Order, People, Expectations

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• Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

  Jim Fowler

  Ties, World, Saving

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• Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

  Josh Gad

  Children, Mean, Talking

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• It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

  Lev Grossman

  Children, Childhood, Assuming

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• I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

  Dhani Harrison

  Father, Healing, Emotional

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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