David Brin Quotes
There was that word quaint again. It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.
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I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
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You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.
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The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
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There was that word quaint again. It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.
