H. G. Wells Quotes
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I don't watch TV.
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If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
