Willy Ley Quotes
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
