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.

  

  Karrie Webb
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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.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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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.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
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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!

  

  Camille Claudel
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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.

  

  Gary Busey
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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 almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

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• Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

  

  Yves Behar
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• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

  Gary Cole
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• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  

  Frederick Douglass
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• Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
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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.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
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