Ian Hacking Quotes
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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Everything is real on me.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
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Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
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My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
