Philip K. Dick Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
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I have a lot of questions and I don't have that many answers. So what better place to exercise those thoughts than the lyrics, I guess.
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If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
