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If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

Richard Preston

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RootsYouBiologyKnowWillTouch

Our goal is always to make games that can move people, that are designed for everybody so the whole family should be able to play it together, and that bring people together and really move them in a way.

Jenova Chen

FamilyTogetherPeopleGoalPlay

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Max Beckmann

PaintingEnoughI CanNeedReal

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Matt Groening

ScienceMeIdeasHonorComedyNice

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Michael Bolton

GoodHomeBusinessMeSomeoneFind

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Amos Oz

SeaPeopleNationalismNewsEveryday

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

Stephen Malkmus

GoodMyselfNewWillRealOut

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

PatienceAmericanWillDelaysPublic

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

AgeYouthCrystalOutDewFinds

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

Liz Vassey

WomenMechanicMaintenanceHighLow

My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.

Jonathan Anderson

MusicChildrenBrotherYouthSister

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

Donal Henahan

MusicLongNashvilleRealLeftFolk

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.

Dickey Betts

MeNightWeekendPlayLivingNever

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