Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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Hours are golden links, God's tokenReaching heaven; but one by oneTake them, lest the chain be brokenEre the pilgrimage be done.
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I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
