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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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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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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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
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Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
