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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We don't focus on the little details. Right now we're squeezing, we're squeezing the stick. If we would get an early goal, but we think that by cheating we're going to get that early goal, but it doesn't work like this.
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I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
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Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.
