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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there's almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020