Cory Doctorow Quotes
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.
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My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
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I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
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I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
