Jerry Pournelle Quotes
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
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I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that.
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There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
