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 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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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
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I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
