Algis Budrys Quotes
That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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History develops, art stands still.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
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The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.
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There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder.
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
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That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.
