Eric Brown Quotes
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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They hate whom they fear.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
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I haven't done anything with Chick Corea. He had a group called Return to Forever, and everyone in the group became a superstar. I would really like to work with him.
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So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
