Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.
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Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
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Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
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If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
