"Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance."
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"Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
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"I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house."
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"To do something very common, in my own way."
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"We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama."
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"People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now."
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"I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them."
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"I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."
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"I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me"."
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"Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?"
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"There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art."
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"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."
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"God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed."
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"That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?"
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"While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point."
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"Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved."
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"That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene."
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"[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway."
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"We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk."
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"Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up."
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