Arthur Slade Quotes
The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
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The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
