George R. R. Martin Quotes
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
