George R. R. Martin Quotes
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
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Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
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I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood' to be flogged publicly.
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I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.
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'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
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My way is to look forward, not back.
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Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
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Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
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To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.
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As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
