Ian Watson Quotes
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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We shred every day.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
