David Morse Quotes
To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
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Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
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To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.
