David Macaulay Quotes
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.
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I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
