Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Imagination rules the world.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Love is the one wild card.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
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Colleges should be helping to build the next generation’s future, not mortgaging it.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
