Marc Guggenheim Quotes
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.
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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
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If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.
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We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well.
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The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
