Johnny Carson Quotes
The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.
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I'll watch a kung fu movie for kicks, no pun intended, but I'd prefer to watch other movies besides dubbed kung fu things, but they're funny.
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The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
