George R. R. Martin Quotes
I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.
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I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.
