George R. R. Martin Quotes

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

George R. R. Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 20, 1948

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The treadmill won't run on its own; you have to put some work into this. If you're going to lose weight, you have to apply yourself.

Joanna Coles

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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Jesse Schell

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I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

John C. Calhoun

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There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Andrew O'Hagan

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Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

Tom Stoppard

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Robert Delaunay

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I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

Molly Crabapple

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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

Douglas Brinkley

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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Chief Joseph

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I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Aphra Behn

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I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Ashley Tisdale

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