Gene Wolfe Quotes
Until we reach the end of time, we don’t know whether something’s been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.
Quotes to Explore
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I am healthy and happy.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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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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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
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Until we reach the end of time, we don’t know whether something’s been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.
