George Dyson Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
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I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!
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If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
