Jerry Pournelle Quotes
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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I bat righty.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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Years are not important, my dear.
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I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
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As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
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It's a joy to listen to someone at the top of their craft.
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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I don't have any kids of my own.
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My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
