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Paul S. Kemp Quotes

I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

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War Writing Drive Say Want Never

I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores.

Good Day Always Joke

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

You Look Soldier Noble Being

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Great Ignorance Two Ruin Mankind

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Faith Me Dinner Moving World Think

What I've looked to do is try and become a change agent for good, to create the behavioral changes, the cultural changes to really embrace urgency, adopt a higher tolerance to risk, and just encourage people to make decisions.

Steve Easterbrook

Change Good People Decisions Create

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Poetry Reading Thought Everything

I think of myself as just another consumer.

Myself Think Just Consumer I Think

I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.

Michael Moriarty

Attitude Hate People Television Kind

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Tradition Long Been Who Moscow List

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

Technology Writing Internet Place

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Help Going Just Somebody Glad Could

The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Women New York Fashion New Hot Been

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