Mike Quade Quotes
I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
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I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.
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The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
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We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
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Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.
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Rouelle on the possibility of transmuting one element to another said, Ordinary chemists doubt the truth of the principles of this science, but they cannot judge in a matter entirely unknown to them. Although I do not wish to cast doubt on the testim.
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I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
