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Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
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John Michael Crichton
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And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.
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They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
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Power is neither male or female.
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Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.
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Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
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One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
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Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.
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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
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The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
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Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
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Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
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Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.
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It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
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We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.
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I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
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Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
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The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
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Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.
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Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.
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Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
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