Isaac Marion Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?
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As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are in turn shaped by it is a key theme in my fiction - indeed, it's a key part of a great deal of science fiction.
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All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
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We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.
