Boris Vallejo Quotes
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.
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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.
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it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ('Dialectic of Teleological Judgment' §75)
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
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You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
