Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.
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Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
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My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'
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Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
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I never met Paul McCartney.
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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
