Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Quotes
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
