Kenneth L. Pike Quotes
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
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North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
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Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.
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A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).
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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
