Nick Sagan Quotes
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I watch a lot of football.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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Whenever the truth threatens, he hides behind a thought.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
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There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
