Alan Stern Quotes
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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In addition we also hire many senior citizens.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
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As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.
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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
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The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
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Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
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Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.
