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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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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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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Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.
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I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
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DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
