Frank Tipler Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
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No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
