William Gibson Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Jack: I'm scared, I'm frightened.
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It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
