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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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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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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I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!
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I try to do as much as I can for the military.
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I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.
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In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
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When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
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Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.
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If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
