George R. R. Martin Quotes

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  

  Ice T
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Words

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Questions
  • Answer

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
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  • You
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• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Being

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Technology
  • Explore

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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  • Day
  • Dinner

• When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People should be allowed to roll out of bed and go to an interview; people shouldn't be telling you, 'You can't curse because it's not ladylike.' I don't believe in those standards.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Believe

• I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Boyfriend

• I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

  

  George R. R. Martin
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