Joe Abercrombie Quotes
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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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I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
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Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
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I span the entire geek spectrum.
