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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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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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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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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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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In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.
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I think, as a family, it’s important to sympathize and be supportive of what I do, I believe that’s what real family means. In this unsettling world we need a safe haven which I think all of us direly lack nowadays, and when I read the script, I could see that Da-hye, Yu-ri and rest of the homeless family were desperate for that.
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There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
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I didn’t have the choice. I needed to finish first or second to beat Felix. So the tactics were pretty simple, felix and I are very good friends and that’s why I can’t rejoice completely. It’s the third time I took the cup away from him under his nose.
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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
