William Gibson Quotes
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
