Joshua Waitzkin Quotes
I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
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I've worn down America.
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I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
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Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.
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I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.
