George R. R. Martin Quotes
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
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We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
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Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.
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Today we just took our lumps. We came across a good pitcher, and he pitched well and hit his spots.
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It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
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I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.
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I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
