Conrad Anker Quotes
Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play. So having that uniqueness of what nature is gives me a sense of rejuvenation and scale.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
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The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.
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Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play. So having that uniqueness of what nature is gives me a sense of rejuvenation and scale.
