Douglas Adams Quotes
Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.
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Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
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The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
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The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I'm very excited to find such a great home for 'The Rider.'
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Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
