Rodman Philbrick Quotes

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Rodman Philbrick

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I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

Jenny Han

Social MediaYourselfEndGivingYou

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Andrew Sullivan

FriendshipCulturePainGayDesire

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Maxwell Maltz

OpportunitiesYouCrisisWillStay

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Ang Lee

MoneyMeetLinesLikeSensitivity

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Jeff Bezos

WorkThinkLongYouInventionFail

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Roger Bannister

MedicineBehaviorImportantDifficult

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

WorldMoreThingsUseManyAny

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

Julia Sawalha

LifeLoveLiveLaughWalkingComedy

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Lisa Ling

EducationBestTravelThroughEver

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

Chen Guangbiao

PeoplePerformanceSayingHelpWill

It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.

Peter Higgs

ThinkShortDoneUniversityPaper

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Serge Lang

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