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 I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
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Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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.
