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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe. ”
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me. ”
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in. ”
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. ”
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. ”
I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless. ”
A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET. ”
If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops. ”
I'm a shape shifter. ”
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. ”