Bill Drayton Quotes
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
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The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
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It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list
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“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
