William Stephenson Quotes
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
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... every dog is allowed one bite.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.
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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
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Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
