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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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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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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Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.
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Of course I want that gold belt. Don’t tell me that gold belt sitting up here right now on this table would not look great along side this ivory, elephant-trunk suit that I have got on me right now. It would look perfect.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
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Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
