Alex Garland Quotes
Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'
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Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.
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The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
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I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
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Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.
