Joan D. Vinge Quotes
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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All as before: against the dining-room windows Beats the scattered windswept snow, And I have not changed either, But a man came to me. I asked: 'What do you want?' He replied: 'To be with you in Hell.' I laughed: 'Oh, you'll foredoom Us both to disaster.'
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I prefer to think of myself as able to represent all walks of life.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
