Neil Gaiman Quotes
If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
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If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
