Allen Steele Quotes
A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.
