D. B. Weiss Quotes
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.
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I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.
