James P. Hogan Quotes
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
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I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.
