Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
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When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.
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From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
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'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I am just focusing on one match at a time.
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I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.
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Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
