John Scalzi Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird!
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Jon Tester became a multi-millionaire in the Senate, even bought a Cosmopolitan Castle on Capitol Hill. I don't want a castle in Washington, and I don't think becoming a senator should make you rich enough to buy one.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don't solo anything unless I'm sure I can do it.
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'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
