David Lagercrantz Quotes
All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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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 am a just man.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
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I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
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Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
