Clive Thompson Quotes
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
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Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
