Neal Stephenson Quotes
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I had a career. His name was Ike.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
