Iris Murdoch Quotes
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.
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No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
