William Gibson Quotes
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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Accomplishments have no color.
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Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...
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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
