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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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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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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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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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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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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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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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
