R. A. Salvatore Quotes
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
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There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.
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People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.
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When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.
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Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
