William Gibson Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
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Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.
