D. B. Weiss Quotes

You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

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• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.

  

  Becky Lynch
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  • Women

• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Popular
  • Show

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Think
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• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Exercise

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Think
  • Surprise

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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  • Good
  • Death

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • Voting

• Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Men
  • Gym
  • Silent

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • People
  • Wall

• I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

  

  Brion James
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Movie

• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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