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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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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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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But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
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People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.
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I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
