William Gibson Quotes
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.
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Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
