George Blagden Quotes
The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
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I write the best book that I can write each time.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.
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I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
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I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.
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Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.
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I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
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There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
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The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
