Robert Zemeckis Quotes

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

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• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
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  • Relationship
  • Serious

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
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  • Depend

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
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• I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mad
  • More
  • Upset

• I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

  

  Carly Pope
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• In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Long
  • Song

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
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  • Once

• I wasn't surprised to find Samsung's OLED screen to be bright, vivid, and clear. It's beautiful, although in viewing some photos and videos, I found, as I have in the past, that - to my eye, at least - Samsung tends to oversaturate colors.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Past
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• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
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• With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

  Garry Kasparov
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• I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Mom

• 'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Accessories are key - nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades - look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Inspiration
  • Key
  • Accessories

• Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

  

  Chuck D
  • People

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Study

• Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

  

  Dionne Bromfield
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• I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

  

  Ed McBain
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  • Write

• I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.

  

  Miranda Rae Mayo
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  • Stories
  • Creation

• The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
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