Jonah Lehrer Quotes
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
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I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
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I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
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What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
