Bill Reid Quotes
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
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You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.
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I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.
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Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret - and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.
