Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
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You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
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Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
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There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.
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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
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If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.
