George R. R. Martin Quotes
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
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This kind of thinking is taking a long view, in which one must also count the imponderables, such as the effort of prolonged depression upon restless social forces; the inevitable necessity for National Socialism to move very far to the Left, the possible revolt of the people everywhere against dawdling tactics of their leaders.
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I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.
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You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
