Ann Druyan Quotes
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.
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When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
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I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness.
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Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
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No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
