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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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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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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Capitalism should be driving positive social change.
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
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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.
