Erich Gamma Quotes
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular - I admit that much - and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power.
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Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.
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A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
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Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
