John Battelle Quotes
As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
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My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
