Philip K. Dick Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
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You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.
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We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.
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Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.
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I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
