George R. R. Martin Quotes

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

George R. R. Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StoryShortCareerStudentHollywood

It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.

Jimmy Smits

WorkCrazyPressureYouNakedOut

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

Jerry Spinelli

MePiecesBooksEveryBits

I'm a 'bright, shiny objects' guy. I'm always looking for what's next.

Andrew Zimmern

LookingBrightAlwaysNextGuy

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

Michael Gove

JobPeopleWantConcentrateJobs

Lyft Line came out of the vision that we've had from the beginning, which is how do we get the most affordable ride to everyone? Eighty percent of seats at all times on the road are empty. In Los Angeles, average car occupancy is 1.1, and if it were 1.3, there would be no traffic.

John Zimmer

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I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

John Tiffany

CelloSuckerEmotionallyExploitative

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto

WorkGoodSimpleManHarmonyStreet

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.

Trudie Styler

WomenGreatMoreWriteNeedBeing

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

NeverGotAlmostFaulknerOriental

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

Joseph Prince

LifeMyselfExperiencePainThoughts

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

Christian Louboutin

DetailYouBodyIntentionShoe

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

Alistair Horne

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