Kage Baker Quotes
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.
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I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you.
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Steve has the most unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
