A. E. van Vogt Quotes
Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall - I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein's new fragrances is kind of surreal.
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Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.
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Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.
