George R. R. Martin Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.
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I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.
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I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
