Floyd Skloot Quotes
My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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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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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'
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'I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse.'
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
