William Gibson Quotes
I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I can do whatever I want.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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As much as I love my daughters, I wasn't happy with only being a stay-at-home-dad, and my wife encouraged me to try, to really try, at being a writer. More than anything, I didn't want to let her down.
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
