Philip K. Dick Quotes
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
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Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.
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'matter is plastic in the face of mind.'
