Gene Wolfe Quotes
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
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The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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This solution has great superficial appeal-all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.
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Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.
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Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.
