Alan Perlis Quotes
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
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You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.
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People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.
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“Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it. —Stephen Carter, Integrity”
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1: One man's constant is another man's variable.
