Alan Schaaf Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Karaoke bars are devil worship!
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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
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I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
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You never stop learning.
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Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.
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Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.
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Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
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There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.
