Norman Spinrad Quotes
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were 'Maxwell’s Equations of Software!'
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I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.
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I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for the first time and saw the paintings of Goya. They had such a big impact on me.
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
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I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.
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But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
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Live music is better.
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I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other.
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It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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I voted for Obama.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
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I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.
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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
