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 would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
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There is a mental edge that comes with the injections, and it's definitely something that gets you more intense.
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My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."
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People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
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We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
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'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
