Ted Nelson Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.
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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
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There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
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For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.
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The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
