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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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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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?'
