Gary Numan Quotes
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I just can't read music.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.
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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
