Mako Quotes
I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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People take things so seriously.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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We can score on anybody. But we have to focus on defense. They were just outworking us. Everybody has to step up, period, for us to be a better team.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
