Madchen Amick Quotes
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
Quotes to Explore
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
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Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.
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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
