Joe Abercrombie Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
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The reason we ended up breaking up was because of managers, not because the band wanted to break up. The reason all the bad things came about – and they did, and they do raise their head in the Badfinger story – all of that came from the management side of it, not from inside the band.
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I span the entire geek spectrum.
