Alice Crary Quotes
All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
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All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.
