Rainer Weiss Quotes
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people.
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
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In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
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There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
