Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I know all the critics.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
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The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
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'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.