Oliver Sacks Quotes
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."
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In the hospital, I read a book about American Indians and saw in it the name of Nike. It was written incorrectly, as I later learned. But I called my daughter Nike.
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For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really.
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I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.
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When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually realise who wants to be there with you and who wants to be your friend.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
