George R. R. Martin Quotes
I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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If you come to one of my shows, you’re coming to a show with a fully thought-out character. I don’t need to ‘use drag’ to further my career. It just so happens that I’m one pretty motherfucker in eyelashes. I’m a fully thought-out character, so it kind of hurt my feelings, especially in the beginning. But all drag queens are different little universes, and if you can’t see that I’m another part of the rainbow, then fuck off.
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My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.
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We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
