Philip K. Dick Quotes
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
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Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
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I am not in a position to enjoy sexual relations.
