James Gleick Quotes
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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You have to train a dog to think.
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The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
