Gene Wolfe Quotes
When we're young, we notice things that are young, like ourselves. New grass on old graves. New leaves on old trees
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
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I don't really consider myself to be famous.
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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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'We got a course in picknicking at the university,' said Dr. Bourbon. 'It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking.'
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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
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Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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When we're young, we notice things that are young, like ourselves. New grass on old graves. New leaves on old trees
