Joel Gretsch Quotes
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.
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I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
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Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.
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Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.
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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
