Tom Atkins Quotes
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I thought I'd become an actress, but then I realized I eat too much.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.
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My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
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I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.
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Friends do give advice, but in the end, it's up to you. Although I think it is nice to have a guy's perspective on girls' issues in relationships and vice versa.
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You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!
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The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
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Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.
