Ian Watson Quotes
When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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We shred every day.
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How lucky am I?
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.
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People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.
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The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
