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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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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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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I'm too old to know everything.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
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I've always been excited to know how we got here.
