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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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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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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More specific material relating to the bourgeois state will be found in subsequent volumes. This approach is of a piece with Marx’s. One must remember that most of the states that Marx had occasion to discuss were not capitalist states—as yet—even in Europe, let alone throughout the rest of the world. From the standpoint of theory this is a good thing, since no phenomenon can be thoroughly understood if only one specimen or type is available for examination. The literature of Marxism and marxology is unfortunately full of statements about Marx’s views which actually apply only to capitalism and the bourgeois era, and which require at least considerable qualification as soon as the focus is widened to include most of the world and world history. It is a form of ethnocentrism.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
