Ted Nelson Quotes
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
Quotes to Explore
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
