Ted Nelson Quotes
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
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Doing a movie of one of the Raksura books would involve a lot of CGI, but I have thought about who I'd like to play the characters. Some of them I just can't pin down to a specific actor, and I keep revising my mental list.
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I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.
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Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
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One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
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You can and must understand computers now!
