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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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.
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We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
