Wilfred Bion Quotes
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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Human life can be lived like a poem.
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In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.
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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
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Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.
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I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
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If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.
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A good leader makes a good follower.
