Larry Wall Quotes
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
