James Collins Quotes
The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.
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With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.
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With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
