Warren Spector Quotes
I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
