Gene Roddenberry Quotes
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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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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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
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I need instant gratification.
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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
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I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
