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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
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I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.
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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.
