James Lovelock Quotes
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Quotes to Explore
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I hate birthdays.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
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'My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.'
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
