Geoff Ryman Quotes

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

Geoff Ryman

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When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

John Banville

EyesDisappointmentMeArtistI Can

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

Anna Lindh

ResponsibilityPeaceSecurityActor

When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.'

John Williams

WalkYouLivingOutFilmBeen

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

Stephanie Savage

LoveAcceptanceIdentityUniversal

I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.

Jorja Smith

LoveMusicTeamCoolPressureWay

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

Jon Tester

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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton

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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

Chris Van Allsburg

StoryGardenFirstAboutWrote

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

Brian Fallon

TogetherYouGoAnythingLikeSongs

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

Boy George

FunnyGreatSomeoneYouBadPerson

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Anne Lamott

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The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Pete Hoekstra

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