Andy Weir Quotes
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
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I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.
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It's going to require experimentation, reinventing the industry.
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Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.
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A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
