Luther Burbank Quotes
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
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I'm a survivalist and a survivor.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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Those who are making history seldom have time to record it.
