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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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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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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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
