Kevin J. Anderson Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
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That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
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The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
