Ramez Naam Quotes
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
