Alan Kotok Quotes
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Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Once you stop learning, you start dying.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.
