Aaron Allston Quotes
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I will keep working hard!
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Love is more than one thing.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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No one pays me to be nice.
