Augustus Quotes
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	Let's judge a man on what he's done.   
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	I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.   
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	I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.   
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	To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.   
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	I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.   
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	Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.   
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	I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.   
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	When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.   
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	The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.   
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	I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.   
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	Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.   
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	Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.   
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	Someone has to stand up for wimps.   
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	We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.   
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	I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.   
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	Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.   
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	I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.   
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	Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.   
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	I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.   
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	There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.   
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	Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.   
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	Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.   
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	The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.   
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	Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					