S. M. Stirling Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
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Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.
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A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
