Bear McCreary Quotes
Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
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I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
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In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
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I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember.
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
