George R. R. Martin Quotes

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

George R. R. Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

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Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Maurice Strong

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Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.

Siri Hustvedt

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So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Roger Rees

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Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Maryanne Wolf

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The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Louisa Hall

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Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

Debbie Allen

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With an independent movie, it's like, 'Okay I know what I want, and I got to go for it.' I just got to get the A version of this. Occasionally we'll try a B version, but not often. We'll just get what's scripted and try to do that as best we can, so you sort of edit while you shoot an independent movie.

David Twohy

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I don't mind how good or bad my partner is, as long as we have a lovely time.

Anton du Beke

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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William S. Burroughs

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I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but I'm very proud of this: I moved to L.A. in October of 1997, but I never had a survival job in L.A. I was able to support myself with acting from the moment I got to town.

Sean Gunn

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My goal, one-hundred percent, is to get individuals and companies to move to Florida.

Rick Scott

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