Patrick Collison Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.
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We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
