Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I always liked spy stories.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.
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My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
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If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.
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I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.
