Larry Wall Quotes
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I always drive like a madman.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
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I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
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We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
