Douglas Adams Quotes
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
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I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
