Raine Maida Quotes
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
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My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
