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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For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.
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I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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