Gardner Dozois Quotes
When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
