Marvin Minsky Quotes
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
