Boris Beizer Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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Religion is a huge part of me; I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm pretty much open about it if people were to answer questions. At the end of the day, I'm just a normal girl. I have my own beliefs just like everyone else. I have a strong belief in something, but I also love music.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
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Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.
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I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.
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I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
