Harlan Ellison Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Modern physics... reduces matter to a set of events which proceed outward from a centre. If there is something further in the centre itself, we cannot know about it, and it is irrelevant to physics.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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I've always sung. My dad had a song in his heart and on his lips 24/7. A lot of the time, it was the same song and the same phrase over and over again.
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I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
