- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
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- Nov 07, 2020