Joe Haldeman Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I believe in following opportunities.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
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Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
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So many ways to be deemed unclean
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The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.
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I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.
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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
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The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
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The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.
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We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
