William Bradford Shockley Jr. Quotes
My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
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We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.
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If I'm going to see people, I won't wear heavy makeup. It's not attractive on me. When you see those pictures on my Instagram, they are usually for when I'm doing a photo shoot or an interview.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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Experience really does make you better, man.
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When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously.
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A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.
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You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.
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If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
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My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
