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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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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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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I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
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This was the biggest win of the season for us. I'm happy with our players. When we flew in here they had a mission about them and wanted to play well and they did not back down.
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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.
