Nick Antosca Quotes
I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
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Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
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Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.
