Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.
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It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.
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I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.
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He's so cute, he's so great. We have to get home soon.
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