Harold Ramis Quotes
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I have a great office.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
