Erwin Chargaff Quotes
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.
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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
