Daniel Suarez Quotes
The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.

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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.
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The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.