John Van Hamersveld Quotes
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it.
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I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
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What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
