Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
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My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.
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To say more, is to say less.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
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In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.
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Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
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Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
