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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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
