Jenna Wortham Quotes
We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
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I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
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Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
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The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
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We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.
