Carl Sagan Quotes
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
