Chung Ling Soo Quotes
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.
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Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.
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With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
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I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.
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I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.
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I don't believe in an afterlife.
Antony Sher -
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.
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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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I worry sometimes that our world actually values a lack of intelligence. Like we are considered normal if we spend our time thinking about what one of the Kardashians wears to a party, and we are considered strange if we wonder whether a bee’s parents grieve if said bee dives into the Central Park Reservoir and never makes it back to the hive.
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I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.
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It was in his high school music class that he first became acquainted with a battered caramel-colored Stella Parlor. When Harlan raked his fingers over the six strings, his entire body vibrated. He'd never thought of himself as incomplete - one half of something he could name - but there it was, the very thing that had been missing from his young life.
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
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I knew I should have cleaned that musket!
