James Mattis Quotes
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.
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It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.
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Do you know who I like? No, you don't. So I'm gonna tell you. Because if you all just did know who I like, then that would have been really weird, because it means you're in my head.
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
