Desmond Morris Quotes
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.
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Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
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But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.
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In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.
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For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
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Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
