Aaron Allston Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I have fabulous children.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
