Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.
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If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.
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That’s the words: 'So I’m back to the velvet underground'-which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff-'back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was.'
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
