Beth Revis Quotes
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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I grew up with action movies in my head.
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.
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It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character.
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Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
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From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
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Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
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Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.
