Clifford D. Simak Quotes
What is a bow and arrow?It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war.It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering.It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.It is a symbol of a way of life.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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… the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?
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I have so much to offer and so much love and emotion to show.
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We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.
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Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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What is a bow and arrow?It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war.It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering.It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.It is a symbol of a way of life.
