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"I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient."
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"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."

"We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes."

"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."

"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style."

"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."

"The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice."
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"You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem."

"To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old."

"How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature."

"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."

"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."

"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."

"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."

"Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science."

"I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises."
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