Mary E. Pearson Quotes
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
