William Gibson Quotes
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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Casting is 65 percent of directing.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
