John Scalzi Quotes
I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.
John Scalzi
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford
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I want to win football games.
Victor Cruz
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
Becki Newton
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Lana Wachowski
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
Pardis Sabeti
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
Sam Hunt
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne Dyer
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
Ornette Coleman
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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
Martin Scorsese
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I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
Bob Beauprez
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I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.
Drew Carey
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I really enjoy encountering a celebrity who's like, 'Let's go; you'd better have your A-game on.' You sit down with Madonna, and she's like, 'You'd better have something for me. If you're not ready to dance, I'll eat you up.'
Kevin Frazier
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I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.
John Scalzi
