Gregory Benford Quotes

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.

Gregory Benford

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CulturePastEvilIllusionOwnMyth

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

Jeff Bridges

GoodGreatGood NewsNewsAlways

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

Amy Grant

GreatMeSongYouWantWrite

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

Steven Wright

Make A DifferenceDifferenceRoom

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Steve Sabol

MusicFootballPhotographyEarlyNFL

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

ReadingDesireMonkeyCleverWrite

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.

Michael Ritchie

WorkJobRestReadingPlanningYear

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

LifeGoodWritingThinkHardClear

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift

PantsTellSitDimeManyThin

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Donald Davis

LearnJustStoriesThem

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

Christopher McQuarrie

WorkGreatMindSomeoneNeverLeave

Any coach, any team in the NFL, if they had Peyton Manning healthy and ready to play, I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

Brock Osweiler

TeamGameThinkReadyPlayHealthy

I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.

Armin van Buuren

MusicDayPeopleMeEndWeird

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