Christopher Priest Quotes
I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.
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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
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Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.
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Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.
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Di quel color che per lo sole avversonube dipigne da sera e da mane,vid' îo allora tutto 'l ciel cosperso.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
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I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.
