Ted Chiang Quotes
The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
Ted Chiang
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Victoria Pendleton
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller
All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
Quavo
Migos
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
J. Michael Straczynski
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Rachel Maddow
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
Zooey Deschanel
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.
Maisie Williams
It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
Randeep Hooda
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
Adam Smith
I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron
When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.
Jamie Hewlett
Gorillaz
Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.
Retief Goosen
..the thing was to choose one a ready-made object that you were not attracted by.. ..and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough.. .My intention was to completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.
Marcel Duchamp
The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
Ted Chiang
