William Gibson Quotes
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.
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My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.
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The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
