Marvin Ammori Quotes
I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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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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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.
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I grew up a poor kid in Florida, and I was always in Florida living with my stepfather and my mother, and we used to, every year, sit down and watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' And I think to this day that's probably the foundation for everything I've done since.
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I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.
