Adam Rayner Quotes
We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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In order to have a continuing influence, the stock market has to continue rising at an accelerating pace faster than exponential. Only a faster-than-exponential stock market growth makes private investors feel richer.
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Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
