Dean Kamen Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
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I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.
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I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.
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Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.
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'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.
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A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.
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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
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Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
