David Gerrold Quotes
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.
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I wore an Urban Outfitters dress on my wedding day. It was one I had in the back of my wardrobe. It was white. We went to City Hall here in New York. I wore it with blue velvet boots my husband bought for me. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It was chilled and spontaneous.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.
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Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.
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I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
