"I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people."

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Graeme Simsion

#Technology Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.”
“What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.”
“We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence....”
“There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.”
“I love playing confused, broken characters.”
“Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.”
“The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.”

Source : "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.
“As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.”

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