Richard Matheson Quotes
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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I knew my priority was acting, and school came second. If I had an audition and meetings, I did the school work later.
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I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
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I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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The Palm Beach Police Foundation is a client of Trump's. They pay to rent out Mar-a-Lago every year.
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Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
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The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul
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The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.
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The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
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The soul has no gender.
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It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
