Albert Einstein Quotes
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Quotes to Explore
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
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An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
