Phil Klay Quotes
I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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I hate big models.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.
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If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
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I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
