Randy Pausch Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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I never read about photography.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.
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Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Gave you all a man could give ya. Made sure I found the time to keep it all together. But the way you’re treating me ain’t right.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
