George R. R. Martin Quotes
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
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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 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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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've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
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My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin.
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
