Merce Cunningham Quotes
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
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Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.
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You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
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How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.
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I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
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Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.
