Gene Wolfe Quotes
Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.
Quotes to Explore
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.
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I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.
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Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
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Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.
