William Gibson Quotes
The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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All of us have an entrepreneur in us.
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.
