Seymour Cray Quotes
3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Me.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
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There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
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I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.
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Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.
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3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
