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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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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Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.
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Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.
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People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
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If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.
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All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
