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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

Olivia Thirlby

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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

Jim Harrison

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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.

Joe Morton

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I think we're such great parents together - I could not have picked a better partner to have kids with.

Jessie James Decker

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Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.

John Pritzker

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The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Steven Pinker

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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

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Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

Roy Harper

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I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.

Roseanne Barr

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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Louis C. K.

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You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

Juan Pablo Galavis

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Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'

Domhnall Gleeson

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I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

Peter MacKay

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