Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
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It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.
