John Green Quotes
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
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People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
