Poul Anderson Quotes
What I want is to commune with the land. In company I couldn’t admit that. It’d sound too pompous, as though I were from Greenpeace or the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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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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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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What I want is to commune with the land. In company I couldn’t admit that. It’d sound too pompous, as though I were from Greenpeace or the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
