George R. R. Martin Quotes
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.
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Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...
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'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
