George Haven Putnam Quotes
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
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I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.
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I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
