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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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's nothing I can do. They're five years in on a 20-year sentence. They went in at 16, they'll get out at 36. That's a lifetime.
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No one pays me to be nice.
