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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It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
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I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
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The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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A four wood I hit on the 13th hole at Bel Air Country Club in June of 1945. It landed right on the green and rolled into the cup for a hole in one.
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Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.
