R. A. Salvatore Quotes
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
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Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
