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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
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The portrait in his, and he's walking out of the house he was born in with blood on his hands and his head held high and his mother's face on his back, his own inalienable albatross, for all the world to see.
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
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The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.
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I notice that I'm full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it's honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.
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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.
