Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
