Aaron Allston Quotes
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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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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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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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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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Richard [Ayoade] likes working with people that he knows. So, I already knew all of the crew and practically everyone and we all felt comfortable. It's nice to be able to go into somewhere where there's no pressure, and where people are supportive and believe in you.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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No one pays me to be nice.
