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 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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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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Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.
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I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
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One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
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Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.
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I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.
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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.
