Vernor Vinge Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
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I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.
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In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work
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When you are writing and directing and producing, there is a lot of stuff to do. I like to finish one; then while I am editing, I will think of the next one.
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She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
