Samuel Butler Quotes
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
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No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
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Japanimation is a whole different art form.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
