Gene Green Quotes
It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
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It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
