S. M. Stirling Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.
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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
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I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
