Alan Shepard Quotes
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
