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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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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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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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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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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We will never conquer death.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
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For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
