Sadie Jones Quotes
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
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Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
