Larry Wall Quotes
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
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A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.
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I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.
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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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We live in such hypersexualised yet totally prudish times. People have this expectation about everyone else's relationship to their own bodies.'Surely you must have shame about your body? Surely what's scariest for you as actor would be to stand in a room naked?' Believe me, I've been in so many more terrifying situations as a performer than that.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
