Derrick Bostrom Quotes
There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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I've been racketeered on.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
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I'm a late-night guy.
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Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store.
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I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.
