Douglas Adams Quotes
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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I'm a work in progress.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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Nothing beats an 'Archers' fan for their levels of devotion. I think it's because it's radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.
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I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
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Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
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I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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It's sapiens to be homo.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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The hard work pays off.
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The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
