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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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.
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Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.
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We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
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The question is, which three? In dinosaurs we know it's the thumb and the next two fingers.
