Brian Aldiss Quotes
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
Gabriel Luna
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
Candice Olson
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria
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Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
Brown Campbell
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
Dana Brunetti
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
Candy Crowley
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
Tagg Romney
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
Gary Wright
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I can tell my grandkids that I played with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and Flacco will definitely be added to that list.
Benjamin Watson
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison
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I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.
Aleks Paunovic
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Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
Jason Bateman
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Brian Aldiss