David Gerrold Quotes
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.
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Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
