Larry Wall Quotes
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
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I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
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I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
