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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At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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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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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
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I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
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We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.
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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.
