Albert Einstein Quotes
You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.
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Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
