George R. R. Martin Quotes
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
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Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
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I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.
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Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
