Andrew Pyper Quotes
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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I go to the gym pretty regularly.
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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
