Peter Bichsel Quotes
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
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I love Denver.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.
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I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.
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Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
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Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
