L. Neil Smith Quotes
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
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A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
