Larry Niven Quotes
2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
Quotes to Explore
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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Since government supposedly can do whatever it sets out to do, the president should sign an executive order outlawing death. However, as with all other laws, Congress should be exempt.
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
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You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.
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The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
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If we could export more finished products instead of raw materials, we could become a middle-income country.
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I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?
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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
