John Hillcoat Quotes
We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
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I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'
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The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.
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If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
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The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
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We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
