Mike Rutherford Quotes
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.
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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.
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Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.
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We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
