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Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I like to be against the odds.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I like risky stuff.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
