John C. Mather Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
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When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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I've always been excited to know how we got here.
