Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes
I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
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I hadn’t touched the drums in over fifteen years, and hadn’t been on stage in twenty. During our brief rehearsals, I’d been trying much too hard; trying to be too clever. But in the actual moment, the magic asserted itself with an authority that took my breath away.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.
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I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
