Andy Weir Quotes
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.
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Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
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Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.
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Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
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There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.
