Nick Gordon Quotes
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.
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Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.
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The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.
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I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
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I like a girl that keeps me in love and keeps me entertained.
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
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The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.
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I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.
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We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis.
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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'Targeting' is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base - that would be you - like a biology lab frog, drawing and quartering it into various components, and seeing which clicked most on its ads.
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I'm not Ed Reed. I'm Eric Weddle, and you're going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there's no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.
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In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
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Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
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As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.
