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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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 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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There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
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My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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As Elijah’s mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9–11).
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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.
