Nicholas Stoller Quotes

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Way
  • Looking

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
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  • Dead

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
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• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
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• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Thinking

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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  • First

• When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Control

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
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  • Pretty

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • Own

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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  • Way
  • Wisdom

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
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  • Science

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Way
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• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  

  Aleister Crowley
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  • Stop

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • World
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  • Thinking

• My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Way
  • Position

• We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Perception

• When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Way