Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes
When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I want to be my own person.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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We should have more invention.
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Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
