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I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.


Celia Rees

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BILL REES I don't worry much about Cutler. He has a great arm, good accuracy and he's mobile.
BILL REES Vince Young is more of a spread-offense guy, where he takes a great majority of snaps in the shotgun...
BILL REES It would be a good situation. We'll be ready. But I have a feeling they'll be gone and push some oth...
BILL REES Drafting for the 3-4 defense is difficult. It's a process of relearning some of the defensive techni...
BILL REES I'm not sure there has been a game by a quarterback that has ever been better.
BILL REES In some ways, he may be more of an unknown than Vince Young. He didn't have the supporting cast. But...
BILL REES Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction wr...
MARTIN REES I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
MARTIN REES When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I re...
ROGER REES It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned program...
MARTIN REES He has been arrested for abandonment and endangerment of a child.
CAROL REES Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
CAROL REES She's been calling her mother periodically to let her know she's OK, but she doesn't answer the phon...
CAROL REES The investigation is still ongoing. At this point in time there is no indication a crime even occurr...
CAROL REES I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama sch...
ROGER REES I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different do...
MARTIN REES Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy ...
MARTIN REES In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international ...
MARTIN REES The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers...
ROGER REES Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at th...
NIGEL REES Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. Bu...
MARTIN REES I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny ...
MARTIN REES It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole s...
MATTHEW REES Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out...
MARTIN REES We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption ...
MARTIN REES It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far mor...
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