Saul Perlmutter Quotes
It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'
