George Will Quotes
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
