Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes
I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
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The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
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I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.
