Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'
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I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
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People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
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When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.
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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
