Douglas Trumbull Quotes
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I want to win football games.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
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I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
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In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
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When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.
