Alan Feduccia Quotes
The question is, which three? In dinosaurs we know it's the thumb and the next two fingers.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.
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All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
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Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.
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A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
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Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
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We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
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The question is, which three? In dinosaurs we know it's the thumb and the next two fingers.
