Norman Quentin Cook (Fatboy Slim) Quotes
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
Kate McKinnon -
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
Laura Dern -
'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
Salli Richardson -
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Jack Palance -
The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
Cam -
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
Wang Jianlin -
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
Latrell Sprewell -
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
Brian Wilson
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler -
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
Jami Attenberg -
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson -
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
Dar Williams -
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
Alex Shoumatoff
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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.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler -
Success breeds confidence.
Beryl Markham -
Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
Clarence Clemons -
People are just fascinated by assassinations.
Louis Stokes -
I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.
Norman Quentin Cook