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"The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant."
"I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them."
"I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'."
"No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff."
"... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone."
"One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff."
"I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff."
"It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page."
"I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm."
"I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up."
"I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it."
"I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff."
"I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there's probably a lot that we don't know. That's what is really interesting."
"I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done."
"I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff."
"Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time."
"I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic."
"In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie."
"If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be."
"When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart."
