John Scalzi Quotes
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
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They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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It's nice to see a friendly face or have someone know your name.
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Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.
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'Harry!' Boutin said. 'Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.'
