"Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Running Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Analogies Quotes

“Three, four, five years, weâ€™re out of here. You know what Iâ€™m saying? Itâ€™s a TV show. This thing ainâ€™t gonna last forever. No way.”
“I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.”
“See, I donâ€™t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored.”
“Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.”
“When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.”
“I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.”
“You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.”

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