- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over Quotes
On endings, control, and what's left after.
These over quotes touch on shrugging off bad reviews, a joke about a composer's career peaking absurdly young, and the physical toll of years spent touring. Another reflects on the discomfort of having no control over what ends up on screen. See Control for more on that last idea.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
- Nov 07, 2020
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
- Stress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't stress over mean-girl antics.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over power to machines.
- Streets
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- Nov 07, 2020