Ian Watson Quotes
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.Ian Watson
Quotes to Explore
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden -
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell -
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone -
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
Ian Somerhalder -
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
Hailee Steinfeld -
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
Natalie Dormer -
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
Ralph Fiennes -
There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
Quavo Migos -
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
Ramana Maharshi -
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. Morgan
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
Rachel Weisz -
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas -
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
E. T. Bell -
I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
Maelle Gavet -
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
Adam Peaty
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More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
Najib Razak -
I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
Flavor Flav -
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
Alice Oswald -
I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
Nate Robinson -
I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
Vanity -
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson