Moby (Richard Melville Hall) Quotes
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be 'informavores,' epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.
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Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
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My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals
