Zan Perrion Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
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You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.
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There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
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I never met Morrissey.
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Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.
