H. G. Bissinger Quotes
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
