John Shirley Quotes
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.
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If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
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It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
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I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
