Brad Carson Quotes
I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.
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I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
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I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.
