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The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
Michael Crichton
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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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In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
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Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.
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Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
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Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
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Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
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