Steven Hall Quotes

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

Steven Hall

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There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

Jennifer Pahlka

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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Jeanette Winterson

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

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I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.

Stella Young

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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

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Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Ruth Rendell

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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

Rupert Murdoch

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I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I'm joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn't be a fine president of the United States. I think she's got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.

Mick Foley

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If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

Michael Pollan

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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

Joseph Brodsky

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When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

Deontay Wilder

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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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