Christine Maggiore Quotes
Predictably, it went well, ... None of this is making us happy. We had a pleasant meeting with kind people, and now I'm just focusing on the treasure hunt for Charlie's birthday this Saturday.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
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I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.
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I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
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A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.
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It seems as though if you go on tour with someone that means you're automatically going out with them. I'm just focusing on my music.
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The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
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There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.
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Predictably, it went well, ... None of this is making us happy. We had a pleasant meeting with kind people, and now I'm just focusing on the treasure hunt for Charlie's birthday this Saturday.
