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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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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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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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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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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The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
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I love horses.
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As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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About Hong Kong: No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.
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Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.
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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.
