Nigel Hamilton Quotes
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I love talking about myself.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
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I just don't think it's appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.
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Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
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I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
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Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.
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When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.
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Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
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I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
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If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
