David Blackwell Quotes
I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.
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To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
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I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
