Gene Wolfe Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
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... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
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Desiring is a part of dreaming.
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People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.
